Old English · noun

rætt

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /rætt/
[ræt]
Syllables: rætt (1 syllable)
Modern English: rat

Meaning

Declension

Declension of rætt
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rætt	rættas
Accusative	rætt	rættas
Genitive	rættes	rætta
Dative	rætte	rættum

All forms (6)

rætt
rættas
rættes
rætta
rætte
rættum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (whence also Old Frisian *rat). The various cognates reflect different preforms. The most common would be the feminine ō-stem *rattā: Old Frisian *ratte, Old Saxon ratta, Old Dutch *ratta, Old High German ratza. Old High German rato and ratta can only reflect borrowings post-dating the High German consonant shift, thus the non-geminate /t/ in rato is of unknown significance.

Descendants

rat

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