Goth

See also: goth, goð, goþ, Goth., and góð

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Gothic or French gothique.

Symbol

Goth

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Gothic.

English

Alternative forms

• goth (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. The expected term from Old English alone would be "goat", see Old English "flota" -> Modern English "float". The modern form is almost certainly then a wholesale loan of the Latin term rather than partly native. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒθ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɑθ/
• Rhymes: -ɒθ

Noun

Goth (countable and uncountable, plural Goths)

1. A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.
2. (figuratively) An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal.
3. Alternative form of goth (“member of gothic subculture; or the subculture itself”).
   • 2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture:

     For most Mansonites, Goth is only a phase, and their fashion and outlook on life change alongside Marilyn Manson's.

Derived terms

• Gothic

Related terms

• Geat
• goth
• Gotlander
• Gutan
• Gutnish
• Guton
• Ostrogoth
• Visigoth

Translations

member of the East Germanic people

• Arabic: قُوطِيّ m (qūṭiyy), (collective) قُوط m (qūṭ)

  Hijazi Arabic: قوطي m (gōṭi)

• Armenian: գոթ (hy) (gotʻ)

  Old Armenian: գութք pl (gutʻkʻ)

• Catalan: got (ca) m, goda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥特人 (zh) (Gētèrén)

• Danish: goter c
• Dutch: Goot (nl) m
• Esperanto: goto (eo), gotino (female)
• Faroese: goti m
• Finnish: gootti (fi)
• French: Goth (fr) m, Gothe (fr) f
• German: Gote (de) m, Gotin f
• Gothic: *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 m (*guta), ᚷᚢᛏᚨᚾᛁ m (gutani) (genitive plural)
• Greek: Γότθος (el) m (Gótthos)

  Ancient Greek: Γότθος m (Gótthos)

• Hungarian: gót (hu)
• Ido: Goto (io)
• Irish: Gotach m
• Italian: goto (it) m
• Japanese: ゴート人 (ja) (Gōto-jin)
• Korean: 고트인 (Goteu'in)
• Latin: Gothus m
• Lithuanian: gotas m, gotė f
• Macedonian: Гот m (Got), Готка f (Gotka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: goter m

  Nynorsk: gotar m

• Occitan: gòt (oc)
• Old English: Gota m
• Polish: Got m, Gotka f
• Portuguese: godo (pt) m, gótico (pt) m
• Russian: гот (ru) m (got)
• Samogitian: guots m, guotė f
• Spanish: godo (es) m
• Swedish: got (sv) c
• Tagalog: Godo
• Turkish: Got
• Volapük: gotan (vo)

Adjective

Goth (comparative more Goth, superlative most Goth)

1. Alternative form of goth.
   • 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin:

     Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

Proper noun

Goth (plural Goths)

1. A surname

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/, (Belgium) /ɡɔ/

Noun

Goth m (plural Goths, feminine Gothe)

1. a Goth (member of East Germanic people)

Related terms

• goth (adjective)

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English goth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔs/, /ɡɔf/, /ɡɔθ/

Noun

Goth m or f (strong, genitive Goths or Goth, plural Goths)

1. goth (member of goth subculture)

   Synonym: Grufti

   • 2015 October 22, Jan Freitag, “Das Posemuckel? Nie gehört!”, in Die Zeit‎^[1]:

     Es gab die ersten Technokeller, die letzten Rockschuppen, die lässigen Discos am Übergang. Es gab Läden für Goths oder Popper, Hippies und Punker, Soul-Kids oder Rocker.

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   • 2023 March 10, Oliver Tepel, “Soloalbum von Hans Nieswandt: Blumen des Guten”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Im bereits erwähnten Jahr des Wandels, 1986, präsentierten just die nun auch dem Postpunk-Gestrigen anheimfallenden gymnasialen Goths des britischen Labels 4AD auf dem zweiten Album von This Mortal Coil elegische Versionen wenig bekannter Hippie-Songs.

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Declension

Declension of Goth [masculine // feminine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein, eine	der, die	Goth	die	Goths
genitive	eines, einer	des, der	Goths, Goth	der	Goths
dative	einem, einer	dem, der	Goth	den	Goths
accusative	einen, eine	den, die	Goth	die	Goths

Further reading

• “Goth”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)