Rah
German
Alternative forms
- Rahe, Raa (latter archaic)
Etymology
In the nautical sense (17th c.) from Middle Low German râ, raa, from Proto-Germanic *rahō, *raihô.
The spellings in -h, -he may have been influenced by dialectal continuations of cognate Middle High German rahe (“pole, bar”), from Old High German raha; though the insertion of -h- in hiatus or at the end of a vocalic stem is also a general practice in German orthography. Further cognate with Dutch ra, Old Norse rá.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /raː/, [ʁaː]
Audio (file) - Homophone: rar (many speakers)
Noun
Rah f (genitive Rah, plural Rahen)
- (nautical) yard (horizontal spar on the mast of a sailing ship)
Declension
Declension of Rah [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Rah | die | Rahen |
genitive | einer | der | Rah | der | Rahen |
dative | einer | der | Rah | den | Rahen |
accusative | eine | die | Rah | die | Rahen |
Hypernyms
- Querstange
Derived terms
- Rahsegel
Further reading
- “Rah” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Rah” in Duden online