yate

See also: Yate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝate, yate, ȝeat, alternative forms of gate, gat, from Old English ġeat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).

Noun

yate (plural yates)

  1. Obsolete form of gate.
    • c. 1420, Hoccleve, Thomas, Dialogue:
      Syn he of helthe hath opned me the yate
    • 1579, Spenser, Edmund, “May”, in The Shepheardes Calender; republished as The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, London: Henry Hills, 1679, page 21:
      For thy my Kiddie, be ruled by me, / And never give trust to his trechery: / And if he chance come when I am abroad, / Spar the yate fast, for fear of fraud.
    • 1847, Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1870, page 69:
      He's left th' yate at t' full swing, and Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs o' corn , and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow!

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

yate (plural yates)

  1. Any of several species of Eucalyptus.

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate (“yacht”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈja.te/

Noun

yate

  1. yacht

Derived terms

  • magyate

Fijian

Etymology

From ate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

yate

  1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Middle English

Noun

yate

  1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɟ͡ʝate/, [ˈɟ͡ʝat̪e]

Noun

yate m (plural yates)

  1. yacht

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate (“yacht”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈja.te/

Noun

yate

  1. yacht

Derived terms

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