oat en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈɔʊ̯t/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈəʊt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɵ̞ʊt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- /ˈɐ̝ʉ̯t/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈoːt/ monophthongization
- /ˈoʊ̯t/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈəʉ̯t/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ote, from Old English āte, from Proto-West Germanic *aitā, from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (“swelling; gland; nodule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (“to swell”). See English atter (“poison”). Cognates * Germanic: cognate with Scots ait (“oat”), West Frisian oat (“wild oat”), Dutch oot, aat (“wild oat”), Saterland Frisian Aate (“pea”), German Low German Aat (“oat”), obsolete Luxembourgish Otz (“oat”). Further related to Icelandic eitill (“nodule”), Norwegian Bokmål eitel (“knot, gland”), Norwegian Nynorsk eitel (“knot, gland”), Old High German eiz (“abscess”) (German Eiter (“pus”), Eiß (“ulcer”)), Dutch etter (“pus”), Saterland Frisian eitel (“fast, raging”), Old Norse eitill (“nodule”) * Indo-European: Latin aemidus (“swollen, protuberant”), Old Church Slavonic ꙗдъ (jadŭ, “poison”), Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “to swell”), Albanian ënjt (“to swell, inflame”), Old Armenian այտնում (aytnum, “to swell”), այտ (ayt, “cheek”), Sanskrit इन्दु (índu, “water drop”)
Meanings
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(uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
World trade in oat is increasing.
The oat stalks made good straw.
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(countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
The wild red oat is thought to be the ancestor of modern food oats.
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(as plural, countable, uncountable, usually) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
[…]I could munch your good dry Oates. Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:The point is, except in Scotland, people eat comparatively few oats. Scotland's another story, though you'll have to decide how seriously to take it. The way the story goes is that in eastern Scotland, the unmarried plowmen didn't eat anything but oats and milk, except for an occasional potato.
1991, Cornelia M. Parkinson, Cooking with Oats: Oat Bran, Oatmeal, and More, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:
- (countable, uncountable) A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
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(countable, uncountable) The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.
Few of them care an oat for the niceties of the arrow sport, but for the young lords that may be on a hunt!
1994, Susan King, The Black Thorne's Rose, page 21:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| oats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
oat cell · Polish oat · common wild oat · oatgrass · animated oat · oatflake · feel one's oats · oater · oatbread · oatstraw · proats · sow one's wild oats · oat grass · oatless · wild red oat · wild oats · oatlage · oatmeal · off one's oats · wild oat · sow one's oats · naked oat · black oat · oat burner · oat-like · oat-burner · oat soda · sterile oat · oat opera · oatcake · rolled oats · potato oat · oatlike · sow wild oats · oaty · oaten · oatie · black oat grass · oat milk
Relateds
Translations (136)
vec véna (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rm aveina (widely cultivated cereal grass) · gld муди (widely cultivated cereal grass) · pms biava (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nrf avaine (widely cultivated cereal grass) · it avena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rm avagna (widely cultivated cereal grass) · scn aina (widely cultivated cereal grass) · uk ове́с (widely cultivated cereal grass) · cmn 燕麥 /燕麦 (widely cultivated cereal grass) · scn avina (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sk ovos (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ba һоло (widely cultivated cereal grass) · oc civada (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ja 燕麦 (widely cultivated cereal grass) · cs oves (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ko 귀리 (widely cultivated cereal grass) · eu olo (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sah эбиэс (widely cultivated cereal grass) · cy ceirch (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sc aena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tg ҷави русӣ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ota یولاف (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ms oat (widely cultivated cereal grass) · lo ເຂົ້າມ້າ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · et kaer (widely cultivated cereal grass) · grc βρόμος (widely cultivated cereal grass) · kw kergh (widely cultivated cereal grass) · vi yến mạch (widely cultivated cereal grass) · pl owies (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nb havre (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ru овёс (widely cultivated cereal grass) · mk овес (widely cultivated cereal grass) · uz suli (widely cultivated cereal grass) · pcd avin·ne (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ja カラスムギ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · bg ове́с (widely cultivated cereal grass) · af haver (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sh овас (widely cultivated cereal grass) · lt aviža (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fo havri (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ja オートムギ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sh зоб (widely cultivated cereal grass) · css huunuSmin (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ms haver (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nn havre (widely cultivated cereal grass) · mn овъёос (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fa جو دوسر (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ug سۈلۈ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · aqc нихӏу (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sh ovas (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fy iete (widely cultivated cereal grass) · vo zab (widely cultivated cereal grass) · mns-nor о̄вас (widely cultivated cereal grass) · hi जई (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sv havre (widely cultivated cereal grass) · eo aveno (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ar شُوفَان (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sq tërshërë (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ky сулу (widely cultivated cereal grass) · vo vaen (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sl oves (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ga coirce (widely cultivated cereal grass) · my မြင်းစားဂျုံ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · hy վարսակ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ary خرطال (widely cultivated cereal grass) · lv auzas (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tl abena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · la avēna (widely cultivated cereal grass) · co vena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · xal суль (widely cultivated cereal grass) · gd coirce (widely cultivated cereal grass) · yue 燕麥 /燕麦 (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sc oena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ta காடைக்கண்ணி (widely cultivated cereal grass) · yi האָבער (widely cultivated cereal grass) · km អាវ័ន (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fi kaura (widely cultivated cereal grass) · he shibólet shuál (widely cultivated cereal grass) · se hávvar (widely cultivated cereal grass) · liv kaggõrz (widely cultivated cereal grass) · is hafri (widely cultivated cereal grass) · dlm vun (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sc auena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · shi ⵡⴰⵥⴽⴽⵓⵏ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · av неха (widely cultivated cereal grass) · de Haber (widely cultivated cereal grass) · hu zab (widely cultivated cereal grass) · bn জই (widely cultivated cereal grass) · gv corkey (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rup vromi (widely cultivated cereal grass) · de Hafer (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tt солы (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sh zob (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rm avaina (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ur جئی (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fur vene (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ar خَرْطَال (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ka შვრია (widely cultivated cereal grass) · gl avea (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fy hjouwer (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fa شوفان (widely cultivated cereal grass) · wa avoenne (widely cultivated cereal grass) · pt aveia (widely cultivated cereal grass) · cy ceirchen (widely cultivated cereal grass) · da havre (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rgn véna (widely cultivated cereal grass) · mt ħafur (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ja 烏麦 (widely cultivated cereal grass) · cv сӗлӗ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nds-de Haver (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ro ovăz (widely cultivated cereal grass) · rup uvedz (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ca civada (widely cultivated cereal grass) · kk сұлы (widely cultivated cereal grass) · th ข้าวโอ๊ต (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tl obena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · th โอ๊ต (widely cultivated cereal grass) · be авёс (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tk süle (widely cultivated cereal grass) · acw شوفان (widely cultivated cereal grass) · tr yulaf (widely cultivated cereal grass) · non hafri (widely cultivated cereal grass) · bo ཡུག་པོ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sc avena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · ltg auzys (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fr avoine (widely cultivated cereal grass) · fa یولاف (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nl haver (widely cultivated cereal grass) · el βρώμη (widely cultivated cereal grass) · pa ਜਵੀ (widely cultivated cereal grass) · es avena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · az yulaf (widely cultivated cereal grass) · el βρόμη (widely cultivated cereal grass) · sc ena (widely cultivated cereal grass) · nv tłʼoh nanoolʼołí (widely cultivated cereal grass)