vat – English noun declension

Noun: vat

Singular	vat
Plural	vats

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like vat

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
2. Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See Etymology 3 of fat. See: Middle English Nouns 'vat', Middle English Nouns 'vat', Old English Nouns 'fæt', Dutch Nouns 'vat', German Nouns 'Fass', Danish Nouns 'fad', Swedish Nouns 'fat', Icelandic Nouns 'fat'.

Verbs referencing "vat"

German Nouns Fass.