Rah

Betekenis (Engels)

yard (horizontal spar on the mast of a sailing ship)

Sinonieme

Querstange

Rahe

Vertalings

ra

verga

vergue

yard

pennone

yardarm

verga

antena

penol

entena

penó

anten

penol

antenne

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/raː/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle High German: rahe

Geërf van Old High German: raha

Verwante met Nederlands: ra

Verwante met Old Norse: rá

In summary

In the nautical sense (17th c.) from Middle Low German râ, raa, from Proto-Germanic *rahō, *raihô.
The spellings in -h, -he may have been influenced by dialectal continuations of cognate Middle High German rahe (“pole, bar”), from Old High German raha; though the insertion of -h- in hiatus or at the end of a vocalic stem is also a general practice in German orthography. Further cognate with Dutch ra, Old Norse rá.