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see|Ort|ört
English

Etymology
From Middle Low German orte, refuse of food, cognate with early-modern Dutch ooræte, perhaps from Dutch oor-, out + etten, to eat

Pronunciation
(RP): AHD|ôt, IPA|/ɔ:t/, SAMPA|/O:t/
(US): AHD|ôrt, IPA|/ɔ:rt/, SAMPA|/O:rt/

Homophones
aught (in non-rhotic accents)
ought (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun
en-noun

#(usually in plural orts) a scrap of leftover food; any remainder
#:*1922: Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals. — James Joyce, Ulysses
#:*1997: Peace, Grandam,– reclaim thy Ort. The Learnèd One has yet to sink quite that low. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Translations
Finnish: ruoanjäännös

Old High German

Etymology
Common Germanic *uzdaz, whence Old English ord, Old Norse oddr
Noun
ort m

1. sharp point

Category:Old High German nouns

fr:ort
io:ort
ru:ort
fi:ort
sv:ort
te:ort
vi:ort
zh:ort

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