different between gone vs gote

English

Etymology

From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ?egan, from Old English g?n, ?eg?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?naz (“gone”), past participle of *g?n? (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), Dutch gegaan (“gone”) and German gegangen (“gone”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: g?n, IPA^(key): /??n/,
• (Received Pronunciation, dated) enPR: gôn, IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n/, enPR: gôn
• (General American) (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) IPA^(key): /??n/, enPR: g?n

• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gone

1. past participle of go
2. Alternative spelling of gon or gon': short for gonna, going to.

Adjective

gone (not comparable)

1. Away, having left.

   Are they gone already?

2. No longer existing, having passed.

   The days of my youth are gone.

   All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.

3. Used up.

   I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.

4. Dead.
5. Doomed, done for.

   Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.

6. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 41:

     ...she put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone...

   Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.

7. (slang) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.

   He's totally gone on her.

8. (informal, US, dated) Excellent; wonderful.

   It was a group of real gone cats.

9. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 491:

     Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

10. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

Translations

Preposition

gone

1. (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

   You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Derived terms

• far gone
• Gonesville
• goner
• yesterday is gone

References

• gone at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg

Fijian

Noun

gone

1. child

French

Alternative forms

• gône

Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?on/

Noun

gone m (plural gones)

1. (Lyon dialect) kid (child)

   Synonyms: enfant, gosse

Further reading

• “gone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

gone

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

From Old English g?n, ?eg?n.

Verb

gone

1. Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

Plautdietsch

Verb

gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)

1. to walk
2. to go, to move
3. to proceed
4. (baking, of dough) to rise

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