Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCunning, astute.
From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
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- Inherited-form mentionpratenm
- Inherited-form mentionprætang
- Inherited-form mention*prattugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*prattuzgem-pro · boastful talk, deceit
- Derivation mention*brodno-ine-pro · to wander about
- Cognate mentionpratstq
- Cognate mentionpretnl
- Cognate mentionpratnl
- Cognate mentionprotnds
- Cognate mentionpretteno
- Cognate mentionpretturis
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