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I like the name. “Praat” is Dutch for “talk”.

• JohnKemeny 2y ago
  From Middle Dutch praten, further etymology unknown. Cognates are found only in Middle Low German praten. English prate, prattle and the various Scandinavian verbs were borrowed from these two languages. (From Wiktionary.)
  • totetsu 2y ago
    I wonder if the insult prat came from prattler
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  • fmbb 2y ago
    Wiktionary also says the Swedish “prata” comes from Proto Germanic: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/prattuz https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... So perhaps the Middle Low German and Scandinavian words just have the same old origin.
• SR2Z 2y ago
  Probably a shared root with English "prattle" and the very British "prat."