gate
Middle English
/ɡaːt/, /ˈɡaːt(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- An entryway or entrance to a settlement or building; a gateway.
- A gate door barring an entrance or gap in a fence
- (figurative) A method or way of doing something or getting somewhere.
- (figurative) Any kind of entrance or entryway; e.g. a crossing through mountains.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ġeat (door, gate, a gate) inherited from *gat inherited from Proto-Germanic *gatą (hole, opening).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*gatą
Gloss
hole, opening
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- 'Gater English
- Ambergate English
- Gategate English
- Newgate English
- Southgate English
- Stargateverse English
- algate English
- backgate English
- degate English
- dragon gate English
- e-gate English
- endgate English
- faregate English
- farmgate English
- floodgate English
- fluxgate English
- foregate English
- gait English
- gate English
- gate rape English
- gate-happy English
- gateable English
- gatecrash English
- gatefold English
- gatehouse English
- gatekeep English
- gatekeeper English
- gateleg English
- gateless English
- gatelike English
- gateline English
- gateman English
- gatepier English
- gatepost English
- gateway English
- gatewise English
- gatewoman English
- headgate English
- hell gate English
- highgate English
- ingate English
- jumpgate English
- liftgate English
- lych-gate English
- matchgate English
- midgait English
- midgate English
- moongate English
- multigate English
- outgate English
- photogate English
- qugate English
- screwgate English
- stairgate English
- stargate English
- tailgate English
- tollgate English
- trigate English
- wastegate English
- watergate English
- waygate English
- wombgate English
- Gate German
- gate Dutch, Flemish
- gate Norwegian Bokmål
- gate Portuguese
- *gatwǭ Proto-Germanic
- *gatą Proto-Germanic
- ゲート Japanese
- gate Norwegian Nynorsk
- gote Norwegian Nynorsk
- gutu Norwegian Nynorsk
- deorgeat Old English
- geat Old English
- gæt Old English
- hlid geat Old English
- ġeat Old English
- Newgate Middle English
- flod Middle English
- flodegate Middle English
- gat Middle English
- gates Middle English
- newe Middle English
- ȝate Middle English
- ȝeat Middle English
- ȝet Middle English
- gat Old Norse
- gata Old Norse
- gata Icelandic
- gât Welsh
- గేటు Telugu
- gøta Faroese
- ဂိတ် Burmese
- ဂိတ်ဆုံး Burmese
- *gat gmw-pro
- *gat Old Dutch
- gat Middle Low German
- geti Swahili
- gata Old Swedish
- 게이트 Korean
- gate Scots
- ligeyithi Swati
- gate Mauritian Creole
- gatæ Old Danish
- geet Fiji Hindi