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語源

From 中期英語 gote (“a drain”), from 古期英語 *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 古期英語 gutt (“gut, entrails”), 古期英語 ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

名詞

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.

関連する語

• gotch
• ingot

アナグラム

• EGOT, toge