Etymograph

English

gote

Gote comes from Middle English gote ‘a drain’, from Proto-West Germanic *gotā ‘stream’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-1‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gutǭ1‘gutter’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gotā1‘stream’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150*gota1reconstructed
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gote1‘a drain’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1854gote1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English gote
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1854, Notes and Queries: “... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-Wiktionary, English gote‘to pour’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gutǭWiktionary, English gote‘gutter’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gotāWiktionary, English gote‘stream’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150*gotaWiktionary, English gotereconstructed
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500goteWiktionary, English gote‘a drain’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1854goteWiktionary, English gote. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1854, Notes and Queries: “... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’

yet, founder, refuse, confusion, fusion, gut, refund, font, confuse, fuse, funnel, foundry, confound, fondue, effusive, 46 more

Today it means

noun A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “gote”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- / gote

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