gracht
See also: Gracht
English
Etymology
From Dutch gracht.
Noun
gracht (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.
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Dutch
FWOTD – 4 March 2020
Alternative forms
- (canal, grave): graft (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gracht, from Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣrɑxt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: gracht
- Rhymes: -ɑxt
- Homophone: Gracht
Noun
Een gracht in Amsterdam.
A canal in Amsterdam.
A 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.
- Synonyms: gleuf, greppel, geul, rui, sloot
- 2017 January 10, Het Laatste Nieuws, "Monsterfile op E17 na ongeval in Destelbergen, vrachtwagen in gracht op E40".
Derived terms
- grachtengordel
- grachtenhuis
- grachtenpand
- slotgracht
- vestgracht
Descendants
- Afrikaans: grag
- → English: gracht
- → German: Gracht
- → Papiamentu: gracht (dated)
- → West Frisian: gracht
Noun
gracht n (plural grachten, diminutive grachtje n)
- (obsolete) grave
See also
- kanaal
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *graft, *graht, from Proto-Germanic *graftuz.
Noun
gracht f or n
- (neuter) grave
- ditch, canal, dug watercourse
- groove
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms
- graft (Hollandic)
Descendants
- Dutch: gracht
- Afrikaans: grag
- → English: gracht
- → German: Gracht
- → Papiamentu: gracht (dated)
- → West Frisian: gracht
- Limburgish: grach
Further reading
- “gracht”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “gracht”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch gracht.
Noun
gracht c (plural grachten, diminutive grachtsje)
- (rare) Alternative form of grêft.