Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The sound of a light slap or tap with a soft flat object, especially of a footstep. · A light tap or slap, especially with the hands. · A flattish lump of soft matter, especially butter or dung.
From Middle English pat (“a blow, stroke”), alteration (with loss of medial l) of *plat (> Scots plat (“a blow, buffet”)), from Old English plætt (“a sounding blow, a smack”), from Proto-West Germanic *platt (“a smack, slap, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plat (“a smack, blow, slap”), Middle Low German plat (“a smack, blow, beating”), Middle High German plaz, blaz (“a resounding blow, bang, crash”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionpatenm · a blow, stroke
- Cognate mentionplatsco · a blow, buffet
- Inherited-form mentionplættang · a sounding blow, a smack
- Derivation mention*plattgmw-pro · a smack, slap, blow
- Derivation mention*plat-gem-pro · to strike, beat
- Derivation mention*blod-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionplatdum · a smack, blow, slap
- Cognate mentionplatgml · a smack, blow, beating
- Cognate mentionplazgmh
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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