uton

Etymology
, of uncertain etymology. The Latin etymon is directly continued by 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (unless these reflect the variant in a-), 🇨🇬 (Northern Italy, 15th c.), 🇨🇬 (Engadine), 🇨🇬 (→ Logudorese 🇨🇬, Campidanese ), 🇨🇬, and via 🇨🇬 by 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (Sursilvan), (Surmiran). 🇨🇬 could be Latin-influenced; 🇨🇬 is likely, and 🇨🇬 certain to be a borrowing from Latin.

Noun

 * 1)  autumn, fall

Etymology
Usually said to originate from a form of. Ringe explains it as an allegro form of PWGmc 1pl. (“we're going, we'll go”) which escaped the North Sea Germanic displacement of 1pl. endings because speakers reinterpreted it as a separate word.

Adverb

 * 1) let's
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
 * "ang"

- Uton ealle bīeġan ūru cneowu.

Usage notes
Uton is often described as a defective verb with only a sort of first-person plural imperative inflection remaining. However, there are several striking ways it does not behave like a verb:


 * It rarely pushes the following infinitive to the end of the sentence. Instead the infinitive usually comes directly after, except a weakly stressed word like an adverb or object pronoun often goes sandwiched in between: Uton nū brūcan þisses undernmetes (“Now let's enjoy this breakfast”).


 * Finite verb endings are frequently replaced with -e when they directly precede, , , or . But though the phrase uton wē occurs, *ute wē does not. Even Ælfric, who uses the reduced endings almost 95% of the time, never writes *ute wē, while uton wē appears in his works ten times.


 * Uton has a fixed place within the sentence, being usually clause-initial and never clause-final. Even imperatives are occasionally final, especially in a conjunct clause, but uton never is.


 * In the phrase "let's not," goes directly before the infinitive: Uton ne forlǣtan ġīet þās bōc (“Let's not leave this book yet”). Ne only does this when there is no finite verb to negate; otherwise it always goes before the finite verb, yet there are no instances of *ne uton.