yote

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjəʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

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

1. (UK 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.

Related terms

• ingot

Etymology 2

From coyote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjəʊt/, /ˈjəʊti/
• Rhymes: -əʊt, -əʊti

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).