gait
English
/ɡeɪt/
noun
Definitions
- Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
- (horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English gate (way, gate, gait) derived from Old Norse gata (road) derived from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (street, passage).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*gatwǭ
Gloss
street, passage
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gate English
- midgait English
- gate Norwegian Bokmål
- *gatwǭ Proto-Germanic
- gate Norwegian Nynorsk
- gote Norwegian Nynorsk
- gutu Norwegian Nynorsk
- gæt Old English
- ġeat Old English
- Newgate Middle English
- flodegate Middle English
- gate Middle English
- gates Middle English
- gata Old Norse
- gata Icelandic
- gât Welsh
- gazza Old High German
- gøta Faroese
- 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍅𐍉 Gothic
- gata Old Swedish
- gate Scots
- gatvė Lithuanian
- gatæ Old Danish