Middle English

Noun

traht (plural trahts)

1. treatise, exposition, commentary

   • To þysen twam wifmannen awrat se ilca Jeronimus manigfealde tractbec, — Early English Homilies, c1150
   • Ðis godspel is langsum & hæfð longne traht. — Homilies in MS Bodley, c1175

Related terms

• tract, tracte

Derived terms

• trahtnen — to expound, comment on, explain
• trahtnere, tractnere — An expositor, a commentator
• trahtnunge — An exposition, an explication, a treatment.

References

• Middle English Dictionary, tract

Old English

Etymology

From trahtnian, trahtian ‎(“to treat, comment on, expound, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *derk- ‎(“to see, behold, observe, notice”), cognate with Old High German trahta.

Noun

traht m ‎(nominative plural trahtas)

1. text, passage, exposition, treatise, commentary

   ... óððæt wé ðone traht oferrædan mágon — ... until we can read over the passage

Declension

Derived terms

• ātrahtnian — to treat, discuss
• godspelltraht m. — gospel commentary
• intrahtnung f. — interpretation
• ofertrahtnian — to comment upon, expound
• sealmtraht m. — exposition of psalms
• trahtaþ m. — commentary
• trahtbōc f. — (religious) treatise, commentary
• trahtere, trahtnere m. — expounder, commentator, expositor
• trahtnung, trahtung f. — explanation, exposition, commentary

References

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", traht et al.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), traht.