Etymology

sprat

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Today it means: Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae. Full definition →

Middle English sprotte ← Old English sprot
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromsprot
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsprotte
  3. English todaysprat

From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishsprot all →

Sprott

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