oat

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
2. (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
3. (countable, uncountable, usually) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
4. (countable, uncountable) A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
5. (countable, uncountable) The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.

PrepPhrase

Alternative letter-case form of OAT.

Sinonieme

oats

corn

🌽

grain

oaten

wheat

Avena

Avena sativa Linn.

barley

cereal oat

Vertalings

Hafer

avoine

avena

avena

aveia

haver

avena

βρώμη

yulaf

biada

civada

Haber

avena

βρόμη

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/əʊt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: ote

Geërf van Old English: āte

Verwante met Skots: ait

Verwante met Nederlands: oot

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Aate

Verwante met Nederduits: Aat

Verwante met Luxemburgs: Otz

Verwante met Yslands: át

Verwante met Duits: Eiter

In summary

Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter.
Cognates
Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat ‘oat’, obsolete Luxembourgish Otz ‘oat’, Icelandic át ‘feed, fodder’. Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old Norse eitill (“nodule”), West Frisian iete
Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)