etre

See also: étre and être

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton intre, from Old Breton entr-, from Proto-Brythonic *ɨntr (compare Cornish ynter, Welsh ythr), from Proto-Celtic *enter, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (“between”).

Compare Old Irish eter, Latin inter, Sanskrit अन्तर् (antar), Albanian ndër.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /e.ˈtre/

Preposition

etre

  1. between
  2. among
  3. betwixt

Inflection
  Personal forms of etre  
singular plural
1 etrezon 1 etrezomp
2 etrezout 2 etrezoc'h
3 m etrezañ 3 etrezo
3 f etrezi
imp. etrezor

French

Verb

etre

  1. Misspelling of être.

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *etre (whence also Tocharian A atär), of uncertain further origin.

Noun

etre ?

  1. hero

Derived terms

Further reading
  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “etre”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 86-87
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