graat

• IPA^(key): /ɣraːt/

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• Homophone: graad

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

1. fishbone

• gratenkut
• ruggengraat
• visgraat

• 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.

From Middle English grete, from Old English grēat, from Proto-West Germanic *graut.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾiːt/

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 Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133