An archaic or dialect verb meaning to intend, plan, or aim to do something.
From Old English origins, related to Old English 'æt' and possibly influenced by Norse 'etla.' The word persists in some British dialects, particularly in the Midlands and Southwest, though it is now largely obsolete in standard English.
Ettle is a beautiful example of how Old English words survive in pockets of dialect speech—people in certain English villages might say 'I ettle to go to town' meaning 'I intend to go,' keeping alive vocabulary that Shakespeare's contemporaries would have recognized.
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