Thread:User talk:CodeCat/*hratan/reply (2)

Look, you are falling down the rabbit-hole of regional variation. There is a form rit out there and a form rait, and rot, and rawt, and ret. The form rit is very common in Northern England (i.e., Scotland) while the form rat is more common in the rest of England and that's why I entered it as rat. There are a lot of forms out there for this word, but all of them seem to derive from *hrītaną. You are right, I should have just entered the Old English form as ̽hrītan, because this is what it probably looked like when you discount all regional variation.

By the way, I originally listed the Old English form as ̽hritan but then I went down the rabbit hole of regional variation where me thought that a form ̽hratan might have existed, as well.