yate

See also: Yate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝate, yate, ȝeat, alternative forms of gate, gat, from Old English ġeat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).

Noun

yate (plural yates)

1. Obsolete form of gate.
   • c. 1420, Thomas Hoccleve, Dialogue:

     Syn he of helthe hath opned me the yate

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, “May”, in The Shepheardes Calender; republished as The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, London: Henry Hills, 1679, page 21:

     For thy my Kiddie, be ruled by me,
     And never give trust to his trechery:
     And if he chance come when I am abroad,
     Spar the yate fast, for fear of fraud.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1870, page 69:

     He's left th' yate at t' full swing, and Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs o' corn , and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow!

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

yate (plural yates)

1. Any of several species of Eucalyptus.

Anagrams

• Taye, yeat

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate, from English yacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈja.t̪e]
• Hyphenation: ya‧te

Noun

yáte (Badlit spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:yate.

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈja.te]
• Hyphenation: ya‧te

Noun

yáte (Basahan spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

Derived terms

• magyate

Fijian

Etymology 1

From ate, from Proto-Central Pacific *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Sense of “courage” due to the liver being traditionally considered the seat of courage in Fijian culture. Sense of playing card suit is a calque of English hearts, using “liver” where “heart” is used in European languages.

Noun

yate-na

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

   E tauvi mate na yate-na.

   His/her liver is sick.

2. (figurative) guts, courage, bravery

   E yate levu ko koya.

   He/she has courage/is brave.

3. (card games) hearts (playing card suit)

   Na yate kei na daimani.

   The hearts and the diamonds.

Derived terms

• na yatemu e vaka na yate mai lagi! (exaggerated romantic flattery, literally “your liver is like liver from heaven!”) (idiom)
• yate dei (“firm, unyielding in spirit”, literally “steady liver”)
• yate lailai (“coward”, literally “small liver”)
• yate levu (“courageous”, literally “big liver”)
• yatevuso (“lung(s)”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English yard.

Noun

yate

1. (dated, historical) yard (unit of length)

   E tolu na yate na balavu-na.

   It's three yards long.

References

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “yate”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 231

Middle English

Noun

yate

1. alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝate/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝate/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.t̪e] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃate/ [ˈʃa.t̪e] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒate/ [ˈʒa.t̪e] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ya‧te

Noun

yate m (plural yates)

1. yacht

Further reading

• “yate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate (“yacht”), from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈjaː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ya‧te

Noun

yate (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

Derived terms

• klub yatihan
• yatihan

Further reading

• “yate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Yola

Contraction

yate

1. alternative form of yaate (“gave it”)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:

     Fan Cournug yate a rishp, an Treblere pit w'eeme.

     When Cournug gave a stroke, and Treblere put with him.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88