gate

gate · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*gatą“hole, opening”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*gat
3. Old English · inherited fromġeat
4. Middle English · inherited fromgate
5. English todaygate

From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.

gate · noun²

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*gatwǭ
2. Old Norse · derived fromgata
3. English todaygate

Borrowed from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Cognate with Danish gade, Swedish gata, German Gasse (“lane”). Doublet of gait.

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