gátt

• gætt

From Old Norse gátt, from Proto-Germanic *ganhtiz.

• IPA^(key): /kauht/

  Rhymes: -auht

gátt f (genitive singular gáttar, nominative plural gáttir or (not when referring to a web portal) gættir)

1. doorway
2. (anatomy) atrium (of the heart)
3. (Internet) portal

• í hálfa gátt (“ajar, half-open”)

• gætt

From Proto-Germanic *ganhtiz (“the act of going”).

gátt f (genitive gáttar, plural gáttir)

1. the rabbet of a doorsill or doorpost
2. (plural only) doorway

   Synonym: dyrr

   • Hávamál, stanza 1

     Gáttir allar, · áðr gangi fram, / um skoðask skyli, / um skyggnask skyli, / því at óvíst er at vita, · hvar óvinir / sitja á fleti fyrir.

     [At] all doorways, / ere one goes forth, / one should spy, / one should be keen, / for it's unsure to know, / where foes / sit on the floor within.

• Icelandic: gátt, gætt
• Faroese: gátt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gått; (dialectal) gótt, gøtt
• Swedish: gåt
• Elfdalian: gą̊t

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gátt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 162; also available at the Internet Archive