oat
English
/əʊt/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
- (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
- (usually) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop.
- A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ote inherited from Old English āte (oat) inherited from Proto-Germanic *aitǭ (swelling, gland, nodule) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyd- (swell).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁eyd-
Gloss
swell
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bread English
- cake English
- grass English
- oatbread English
- oatcake English
- oaten English
- oater English
- oatgrass English
- oatless English
- oatlike English
- oaty English
- aemidus Latin
- Eiter German
- Eiterbeule German
- Eiterfluss German
- eiterig German
- eitern German
- eiterweiß German
- eitrig German
- οἰδέω Ancient Greek
- *h₁eid- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁eyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂oyd-éye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *aitǭ Proto-Germanic
- āte Old English
- ote Middle English
- otemele Middle English
- oten Middle English
- eitill Old Norse
- โอ๊ต Thai
- eiter Middle High German
- oti Swahili