prat – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of prat

Adjective: prat

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore prat
Superlativemost prat

Sample Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty. See: Dutch Adjectives 'prat'.

Verbs referencing "prat"

Dutch Adjectives prat.