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Where does “*ratt” come from?

*ratt (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic rattaz, from Proto-Indo-European Hreh₃d- — to scrape.

Ancestry of “*ratt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicrattazrat
2Proto-Indo-EuropeanHreh₃d-to scrape
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