graat

From Middle Dutch graet. Cognate with German Gräte.

• IPA^(key): /ɣraːt/

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• Homophone: graad

graat f or m (plural graten, diminutive graatje n)

1. fishbone
2. ridge

• graat on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• aeve (widespread varaint)
  • eve (Maastrichtian, Valkenburg)
• effe

• IPA^(key): /ɣʀaːt/
• Hyphenation: graat
• Rhymes: -aːt

From Old High German girat.

graat

1. (Eupen, of a number) even

graat

1. just, a short while ago
2. exactly
3. expresses the continuous aspect

From Middle High German gerat, gerade, from Old High German gihradi.

graat

1. (Eupen) straight

   Dé Waïnt éss neet graat.

   The wall isn't straight.

graat

1. Shetland form of great

• “graat, adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

From Middle English grete, from Old English grēat, from Proto-West Germanic *graut. Cognate with Scots graat.

• IPA^(key): /ɡraːt/

graat

1. great
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 4:

     An aal their vrienes had a graat spree.

     And aal their friends had a great spree.

• greatly

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133