gote

See also: Gote, göte, gotë, and Göte

English

Alternative forms

• gout

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *gutōn (“gutter”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. (UK dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

Related terms

• gotch
• ingot

Anagrams

• EGOT, toge

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Dutch

Verb

gote

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gieten

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

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Italian

Noun

gote f

1. plural of gota

Adjective

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• got, gat, goot, goet, goth

Etymology

From Old English gāt, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːt/

Noun

gote (plural gotes or gete)

1. goat (especially a female)
2. The meat or flesh of goats
3. A chamois or antelope
4. A lustful individual; lust as a concept
5. (astrology) Capricorn

Descendants

• English: goat
  • → Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
  • → Marshallese: koot
  • → Rotokas: goti
  • → Tongan: koti, kosi
    • → Samoan: ʻoti
      • → Rotuman: ʻoti
      • → Tokelauan: oti
• Scots: gait, gayt

References

• “gōt (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• goute
• goutte (chiefly late Old French)
• gute

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.tə/

Noun

gote oblique singular, f (oblique plural gotes, nominative singular gote, nominative plural gotes)

1. drop (of liquid)

Related terms

• gotiere

Descendants

• English: gout, goutte
• Middle French: goutte
  • French: goutte
• Norman: goute