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)
- Obsolete form of gate.
- c. 1420, Thomas Hoccleve, Dialogue:
- Syn he of helthe hath opned me the yate
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, “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, Emily Brontë, 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
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ya‧te
- IPA(key): /ˈjate/, [ˈja.t̪ɪ]
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:yate.
Fijian
Etymology 1
From ate, from Proto-Central-Pacific *qate, 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.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝate/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃate/ [ˈʃa.t̪e]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒate/ [ˈʒa.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: ya‧te
Further reading
- “yate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈja.tɛ]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: ya‧te
Derived terms
Further reading
- “yate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Yola
Contraction
yate
- Alternative form of yeeit
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:
- Fan Cournug yate a rishp, an Treblere pit w'eeme.
- When Cournug gave a stroke, and Treblere put with him.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80
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