Old English · noun
wrætt
Normalised wrǣtt
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /wræːtt/[wræːt]
- Syllables
- wræːtt (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- ornamentjewel
Meaning
-
ornament, jewel
2011, Daniel Remain, "fell ne flæsc: Flæsc and the Poetics of Visibility in the Exeter Book Riddles", ISAS, Madison, pg. 8
This middle-earth is in a variety of manners beautified, adorned with ornaments
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wraitijō, perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *wraituz (“fissure; crack; furrow; channel; groove”).
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