Etymograph

English

gurt

Gurt may come from English got ‘watercourse, ditch, sluice’.

  1. English1500–presentgot1‘watercourse, ditch, sluice’uncertain
  2. Englishtodaygurt1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English gurt

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentgotWiktionary, English gurt‘watercourse, ditch, sluice’uncertain
  2. EnglishtodaygurtWiktionary, English gurt

Every English word from English got

Another origin of gurt

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰrewd-‘to rub, grind, remove’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*grautaz‘coarse, crude’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*grautreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150grēat‘big’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500greteas gret, metathetic variant‘great’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500girt
  7. Englishtodaygurt

Today it means

noun A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “gurt”. 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.

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