different between miry vs gote

English

Etymology

From Middle English myry, equivalent to mire +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma?(?)?i/
• Rhymes: -a??ri

Adjective

miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

1. Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:

     Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].

   • 1934 George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     Beyond the bazaar one could see the huge, miry river."

Synonyms

• (like a mire): boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Derived terms

• miriness

Translations

Anagrams

• Ymir, rimy

Middle English

Adjective

miry

1. Alternative form of mery

Adverb

miry

1. Alternative form of mery

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