Ratte

See also: ratte and rätte

English

Noun

Ratte (plural Rattes)

  1. Alternative form of ratte (“kind of potato”).

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Middle High German ratte, from Old High German ratta, rato, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”); see that entry and English rat for more. Compare also Dutch rat, Swedish råtta, French rat.

The consonantism ratta in Old High German (instead of *razza) is unexplained. One possible explanation is that the form was borrowed from Old Saxon ratta. The dialectal German variant Ratz could be reflective of an inherited Proto-Germanic form, an adaptation of the Old Saxon form, or (perhaps most likely) a later expressive derivative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁatə/
  • Rhymes: -atə
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Ratte f (genitive Ratte, plural Ratten, diminutive Rättchen n, feminine Rättin)

  1. rat

Declension

Declension of Ratte [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Ratte die Ratten
genitive einer der Ratte der Ratten
dative einer der Ratte den Ratten
accusative eine die Ratte die Ratten

References

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “ratta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN


Further reading

  • “Ratte” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “Ratte” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “Ratte” in Duden online
  • Ratte on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈratə/

Noun

Ratte f

  1. plural of Ratt
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