yate

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

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!

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yate (plural yates)

1. Any of several species of Eucalyptus.

• Taye, yeat

Borrowed from Spanish yate.

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

yáte (Basahan spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

Borrowed from Spanish yate, from English yacht.

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

yáte (Badlit spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

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

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.

yate

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

Borrowed from English yard.

yate

1. yard (measurement)

yate

1. alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ya‧te

yate m (plural yates)

1. yacht

• “yate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

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

yate (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

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

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.

• 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