gracht
See also: Gracht
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editgracht (plural grachts)
- A canal in a city, with houses on each side.
- 1848, James Silk Buckingham, Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland: An Autumnal Tour:
- Besides the grachts enumerated, there is an inner semicircular one, called the Cingel, the name usually given to the outer fosse; a much wider space, called the Binnen Amstel, receiving the first inlet of water from the river of that name; several capacious basons or docks; and at least a hundred smaller grachts, or canal-streets.
Dutch
editAlternative forms
edit- (canal, grave): graft (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Middle Dutch gracht, from Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz. Equivalent to graven (“to dig”) + -t (“verbal noun”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editA canal in Amsterdam.
gracht f or m (plural grachten, diminutive grachtje n)
- (Netherlands) canal (in a city, with houses on each side)
- Synonym: rui
- In Amsterdam is er een straat langs een gracht, waar een beperkt stopverbod van kracht is.
- In Amsterdam, there is a road running alongside a canal where parking is restricted.
- (Belgium) ditch, trench (in the countryside, referring to both those that contain water and those that are dry)
- 2017 January 10, Het Laatste Nieuws, "Monsterfile op E17 na ongeval in Destelbergen, vrachtwagen in gracht op E40".
- Op de E40 tussen Beernem en Aalter kreeg een vrachtwagen rond 7 uur 's morgens een klapband. Hierdoor belandde de vrachtwagen, die geladen was met aarde, op zijn zijkant in de gracht.
- A truck got a flat tyre on the E40 between Beernem and Aalter around 7 o'clock in the morning. This caused the truck, which was loaded with earth, to end up on its side in the ditch.
- 2017 January 10, Het Laatste Nieuws, "Monsterfile op E17 na ongeval in Destelbergen, vrachtwagen in gracht op E40".
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Afrikaans: grag
- → English: gracht
- → German: Gracht
- → Papiamentu: gracht (dated)
- → West Frisian: gracht
Noun
editgracht n (plural grachten, diminutive grachtje n)
See also
editMiddle Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz.
Noun
editgracht f or n
Inflection
editThis noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
edit- graft (Hollandic)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “gracht”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gracht”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
West Frisian
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