The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*geutaną“to flow, run, pour”
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*geutan
- Old English · inherited fromġēotan“to pour”
- Middle English · inherited fromyuten
- English todayewte
Dialectal variant from Middle English yuten, yutten, ȝhutten, yhoten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, run, pour”). More at yete.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishġēotan all →
yetyote
Proto-West Germanic*geutan all →
yetyote
Proto-Germanic*geutaną all →
yetingotyote
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.