Thread:User talk:CodeCat/*hratan

Probably, but Modern English rat and Middle English ratten would suggest otherwise, though. I do not care much for what unattested forms might have looked like, what I care about is what the attested forms look like and what they tell me and they tell me that it is more likely that the old English form looked something like this *hrātan rather than like this hritan. But it is unattested and so we can never know what it looked like in reality.