gait

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
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  • Homophone: gate

Etymology 1

From Middle English gate (“way”), from Old Norse gata (“road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Compare gate.

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
    Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.
  2. (equestrianism) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

gait (third-person singular simple present gaits, present participle gaiting, simple past and past participle gaited)

  1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
  2. (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

gait

  1. (rare) Alternative form of gate (“way”)

Old Irish

Etymology

Matasović derives this from Proto-Celtic *gozdis, a variant of *gostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger”). The irregular vowel change is a dissimilation from got (“stammering”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡadʲ/

Noun

gait f (genitive gaite, nominative plural gata)

  1. verbal noun of gataid: theft

Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gaitL gaitL gataH
Vocative gaitL gaitL gataH
Accusative gaitN gaitL gataH
Genitive gaiteH gaitL gaitN
Dative gaitL gataib gataib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
gait gait
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		 ngait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gazdo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 155

Further reading

Scots

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. goat
  2. Alternative form of gate (“way”)

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡai̯t/

Verb

gait

  1. Soft mutation of cait.

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cait gait nghait chait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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