gait

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

• Audio (General American):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: gate

Etymology 1

From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

1. A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

   Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.

2. (equestrianism) One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.

Derived terms

• double-gaiter
• gait apraxia
• midgait
• multigait
• square-gaiter
• tandem gait

Translations

manner of walking

• Bashkir: йөрөш (yöröş), атлау (atlaw), аҙым (aźım)
• Belarusian: хада́ f (xadá), ступа́ f (stupá), пахо́дка f (paxódka), ход m (xod), крок m (krok)
• Bulgarian: похо́дка (bg) f (pohódka)
• Catalan: caminar (ca) m, pas (ca) m, aire (ca) m, manera de caminar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步態 / 步态 (zh) (bùtài)

• Czech: chůze (cs) f
• Danish: gang (da) c, gangart c
• Dutch: gang (nl) m pas (nl) m loop (nl) m
• Esperanto: marŝo
• Estonian: kõnnak (et)
• Finnish: käynti (fi), astunta (fi)
• French: démarche (fr) f
• Georgian: სიარული (siaruli), სვლა (svla)
• German: Gang (de) m, Gangart (de) f, Gangweise (de) f, Gehweise (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: βάδισμα n (bádisma)

• Hungarian: járás (hu)
• Icelandic: göngulag (is) n
• Irish: siúl m
• Italian: camminata (it) f, andamento (it) m, postura (it) f, portamento (it) m
• Japanese: 足取り (ja) (あしどり, ashidori)
• Korean: 걸음걸이 (ko) (georeumgeori)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لارولەنجە (larulence)

• Latin: incessus m
• Macedonian: од m (od)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gange c, ganglag n

• Polish: chód (pl) m, krok (pl) m
• Portuguese: andar (pt) m, andadura (pt) f, porte (pt) m
• Romanian: pas (ro), mers (ro)
• Russian: похо́дка (ru) f (poxódka), по́ступь (ru) f (póstupʹ), ходьба́ (ru) f (xodʹbá), шаг (ru) m (šag)
• Sanskrit: गति (sa) f (gati), प्रगामन् (sa) n (pragāman)
• Scottish Gaelic: gluasad m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̑д m

  Latin: hȏd (sh) m

• Slovak: chôdza (sk) f, krok m
• Spanish: zancada (es) f, andadura (es) f, andares (es) m pl (usually graceful), andar (es) m, caminar (es) m, caminado (es) m, paso (es) m, marcha (es) f
• Swedish: gång (sv) c, gångstil c, gångart (sv) c (normally of an animal, especially a (larger) quadruped)
• Tamil: நடை (ta) (naṭai)
• Tanana:

  Lower Tanana: goɬ

• Ukrainian: похі́д m (poxíd), похода́ f (poxodá), похо́да f (poxóda), хід (uk) m (xid), крок (uk) m (krok), хода́ f (xodá), ходьба́ (uk) f (xodʹbá)

horse's way of moving

• Armenian: քայլք (hy) (kʻaylkʻ)
• Bulgarian: конски ход m (konski hod)
• Catalan: anadura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步法 (zh) (bùfǎ)

• Dutch: gang (nl) m
• Finnish: askellaji
• French: allure (fr) m
• Georgian: ალური (aluri)
• German: Gangart (de) f, Gangbild (de) n
• Hungarian: járás (hu)
• Icelandic: gangtegund (is) f
• Italian: andatura (it) f, falcata (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gangart m or f

  Nynorsk: gangart m or f

• Polish: chód (pl) m
• Portuguese: porte (pt) m
• Russian: аллю́р (ru) m (alljúr)
• Swedish: gångart (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Greek: ^{(please verify)} βηματισμός (el) m (vimatismós), ^{(please verify)} βαδισμα n (vadisma)

Verb

gait (third-person singular simple present gaits, present participle gaiting, simple past and past participle gaited)

1. (transitive) To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Etymology 2

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

1. (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
2. (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.

Anagrams

• Gita, taig

Middle English

Noun

gait

1. (rare) alternative form of gate (“way”)

Old Irish

Etymology

Matasović derives this from Proto-Celtic *gozdis, a variant of *gostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger”). The irregular vowel change is a dissimilation from got (“stammering”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡad̠ʲ/

Noun

gait f (genitive gaite, nominative plural gata)

1. verbal noun of gataid: theft

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	gaitL	gaitL	gataH
vocative	gaitL	gaitL	gataH
accusative	gaitN	gaitL	gataH
genitive	gaiteH	gaitL	gaitN
dative	gaitL	gataib	gataib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of gait

radical	lenition	nasalization
gait	gait pronounced with /ɣ-/	ngait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gait”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scots

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

1. goat
2. alternative form of gate (“way”)

Siraya

Noun

gait

1. boundary

References

• Li, Jen-Kuei (2010), “gait”, in 新港文書研究 [Studies of Sinkang Manuscripts] (in Chinese), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡai̯t/

Verb

gait

1. soft mutation of cait

Mutation

Mutated forms of cait

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cait	gait	nghait	chait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.