different between ditch vs gote

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English dich, from Old English d?? (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“id.”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin f?g? (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.

Noun

ditch (plural ditches)

1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

2. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
   • c. 1947, Patrick Kavanagh, Stony Grey Soil

     You flung a ditch on my vision

     Of beauty, love and truth.

     O stony grey soil of Monaghan

     You burgled my bank of youth!

   • 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed

     The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as boundaries and/or irrigation. But to the English, the ditch is the trench. Whereas in Ireland, the ditch is the raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. (As for the trench, where I come from that’s a sheugh).

References

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• fosse
• moat

Verb

ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)

1. (transitive) To discard or abandon.

2. To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.

3. (intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.

4. (intransitive) To dig ditches.

5. (transitive) To dig ditches around.

6. (transitive) To throw into a ditch.

Synonyms

• abandon
• discard
• dump
• jettison
• lose
• shed
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier deche, from Middle English dechen, from Old English d?can (“to smear, plaster, daub”). More at deech.

Verb

ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)

1. Alternative form of deech

Noun

ditch (usually uncountable, plural ditches)

1. Alternative form of deech

English

Alternative forms

• gout

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gut? (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ??otan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. (Britain dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

Related terms

• gotch
• ingot

Anagrams

• EGOT, toge

Dutch

Verb

gote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gieten

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

Italian

Noun

gote f

1. plural of gota

Adjective

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

Middle English

Noun

gote

1. Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?o?t?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: gåte

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata f, from Proto-Germanic *gatw? (“street, passage”). Doublet of gate. Akin to Faroese gøta.

Alternative forms

• gutu
• gota (non-standard since 2012)
• gòtu (Midlandsnormalen)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

2. a path, trail
4. a passage with a fence or gate on either side

   Synonyms: geil, allé

Etymology 2

A kind of blend of gote f (“path”) and gatt n (“hole”), and gjot. The verb is derived from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (verb): gota (a- and split infinitives)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

1. a hole

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Etymology 3

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Alternative forms

• gota (a- and split infinitives)

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyte

Etymology 4

From Old Norse goti, from Proto-Germanic *gutô.

Noun

gote m (definite singular goten, indefinite plural gotar, definite plural gotane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by gotar

References

• “gote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• toge

Old French

Alternative forms

• goute
• goutte (chiefly late Old French)
• gute

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.t?/

Noun

gote f (oblique plural gotes, nominative singular gote, nominative plural gotes)

1. drop (of liquid)

Related terms

• gotiere

Descendants

• English: gout, goutte
• Middle French: goutte
  • French: goutte
• Norman: goute