gote

• gout; goat, gott

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter”), from 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.

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
   • 1854, Notes and Queries, page 402:

     ... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the river Humber" is mentioned. The following extract from Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore (vol. v. p. 28.) may throw light on the site of this gote, one of the […]

   • 1857, James Joseph Sheahan, T. Whellan, History and Topography of the City of York: The Ainsty Wapentake; and the East Riding of Yorkshire; Embracing a General Review of the Early History of Great Britain, and a General History and Description of the County of York, page 377:

     ... Sculcoates gote to the Humber, for the purpose of draining the marshes within his lordship. In the south aisle of the church of Sutton, were formerly to be seen the arms of the family in glass, and at a later period there was in the […]

   • 1871, The Antiquary, page 132:

     ... Sculcoates Gote to the Humber, after which it became the new waterway, so as to float large vessels from its mouth, northward to the point called "Sudcoates Gote, near the Charter House." Subsequently, disputes and much […]

   • 1874, Charles Henry J. Anderson, The Lincoln pocket guide, page 31:

     [In 44 Eliz.] a great controversie did arise in Co. Lincoln, about building of two new gotes at Skirbeck and Langrate (Langrick), for the draining of waters out of South Holland Fens into Boston Haven, which Sir Edward Dymoke with his friends supported.

2. (UK dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

• gotch
• ingot

• EGOT, toge

gote

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of gotë

gote

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of gieten

From Latin gutta.

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: gò‧te

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

gote f

1. plural of gota

gote

1. alternative form of got

• IPA^(key): /²ɡoːtə/

From Old Norse gata f, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“street, passage”). Doublet of gate. Akin to Faroese gøta.

• gutu (dialectal)
• gota (pre-2012)
• gotu (Midlandsnormalen)

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

2. a path, trail
4. a passage with a fence or gate on either side

   Synonyms: geil, allé

A kind of blend of gote f (“path”) and gatt n (“hole”), and gjot. The verb is derived from the noun.

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

1. a hole

From Old Norse goti, from Proto-Germanic *gutô.

gote m (definite singular goten, indefinite plural gotar, definite plural gotane)

1. a Goth

   Synonym: gotar

• “gote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “gutu” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• toge

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

From Latin gutta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.tə/

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

1. drop (of liquid)

• gotiere

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