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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

raught en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɔːt/

Etymology

From Middle English raughte, raghte, from Old English rāhte, a past tense form of rǣċan (“to reach”) (compare taught and teach).

Meanings

  1. (form-of, obsolete, participle, past) simple past and past participle of reach
    form of reach
    • His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 94:

raught en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɔːt/

Etymology

From Middle English roughte, rought, from Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, obsolete, participle, past) simple past and past participle of reck
    form of reck