vracht

From Middle Dutch vracht, from Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“payment for cargo”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht. Displaced the native Middle Dutch vrecht, both originally deriving from Proto-West Germanic *fra- + *aihti. Cognate with English freight and fraught.

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• Rhymes: -ɑxt

vracht f (plural vrachten, diminutive vrachtje n)

1. freight, cargo
2. a large amount, a mass

• Afrikaans: vrag
• → Caribbean Javanese: prag
• → Indonesian: prah
• → Manado Malay: frak (“fare”)

Borrowed from Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“payment for cargo”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht. Displaced the native Middle Dutch vrecht, both originally deriving from Proto-West Germanic *fra- + *aihti.

• IPA^(key): /vraxt/

vracht f or m

1. payment for cargo
2. freight, load, cargo

• vrecht

• vrachten

• Dutch: vracht
• Limburgish: vrach
• → English: freight, fraught
• → Old French: fret (< vrecht) (see there for further descendants)

• “vracht”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vracht”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN