traht
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old English traht (“text, passage: exposition, treatise, commentary”) see below.
Noun
edittraht (plural trahts)
- treatise, exposition, commentary
- To þysen twam wifmannen awrat se ilca Jeronimus manigfealde tractbec, — Early English Homilies, c1150
- Ðis godspel is langsum & hæfð longne traht. — Homilies in MS Bodley, c1175
Derived terms
edit- trahtnen — to expound, comment on, explain
- trahtnere, tractnere — An expositor, a commentator
- trahtnunge — An exposition, an explication, a treatment.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Middle English Dictionary, tract
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom trahtnian, trahtian (“to treat, comment on, expound, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *derk- (“to see, behold, observe, notice”), cognate with Old High German trahta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittraht m (nominative plural trahtas)
- text, passage, exposition, treatise, commentary
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sunday in Lent"
- Nu bidde ic eow þæt ge beon geðyldige on eowerum geðance, ōðþæt we ðone traht mid Godes fylste oferrædan magon.
- Now I pray you to be patient in your thoughts till, with God's assistance, we can read over the text.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The First Sunday in Lent"
Declension
editStrong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | traht | trahtas |
accusative | traht | trahtas |
genitive | trahtes | trahta |
dative | trahte | trahtum |
Derived terms
edit- ātrahtnian (“to treat, discuss”)
- godspelltraht (“gospel commentary”)
- intrahtnung (“interpretation”)
- ofertrahtnian (“to comment upon, expound”)
- sealmtraht (“exposition of psalms”)
- trahtaþ (“commentary”)
- trahtbōc (“(religious) treatise, commentary”)
- trahtere, trahtnere (“expounder, commentator, expositor”)
- trahtnung, trahtung (“explanation, exposition, commentary”)
References
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “traht”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “traht”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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