geat

See also: Geat

English

Alternative forms

• gate, git

Etymology

See gate. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

geat (plural geats)

1. The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mould in casting.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “geat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• -gate, EGTA, ETag, GATE, Gate, e-tag, gate, geta

Cimbrian

Verb

geat

1. third-person singular present indicative of gian

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Participle

geat

1. past participle of atten

Declension

Declension of geat
uninflected	geat
inflected	geatte
		positive
predicative/adverbial		geat
indefinite	m./f. sing.	geatte
	n. sing.	geat
	plural	geatte
definite		geatte
partitive		geats

Northern Sami

Pronoun

geat

1. nominative plural of gii

Old English

Alternative forms

• ġæt

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Cognate with Old Frisian jet, Old Saxon gat, Old Dutch *gat, Old Norse gat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæ͜ɑt/

Noun

ġeat n

1. gate

Declension

Declension of ġeat (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ġeat	gatu
accusative	ġeat	gatu
genitive	ġeates	gata
dative	ġeate	gatum

Descendants

• Middle English: ȝeat, ȝat, ȝate, ȝet, gat, gate
  • English: gate; yate (dialectal)
    • → Welsh: gât, gêt
  • Scots: ȝet, ȝett, yet, yett
  • → Welsh: iet