yote

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊt

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

1. (Britain dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.

   My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.

Etymology 2

From coyote

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Anagrams

• Toye, eyot, toey

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Swahili

Adjective

yote

1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).