rotte
See also: Rotte
Afrikaans
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German rotte.
Inflection
Declension of rotte
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | rotte | rotten | rotter | rotterne |
genitive | rottes | rottens | rotters | rotternes |
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ræt.
Etymology 2
From Old French rote.
Etymology 3
From Old English rotian.
Etymology 4
A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German rotte.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German rotte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²rɔtːə/
Noun
rotte f (definite singular rotta, indefinite plural rotter, definite plural rottene)
- a rat, a rodent of the genus Rattus
- 1890, Arne Garborg, "Soveraader":
- Det er Laasen, han lirkar med, ein-tvo-tri, han skjer, han sagar, ein-tvo-tri, gneg som ei Rotte, ein-tvo-tri […]
- He is jiggling the lock, one-two-three, he cuts, he saws, one-two-three, gnaws like a rat, one-two-three […]
- Det er Laasen, han lirkar med, ein-tvo-tri, han skjer, han sagar, ein-tvo-tri, gneg som ei Rotte, ein-tvo-tri […]
- 1890, Arne Garborg, "Soveraader":
Derived terms
References
- “rotte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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