gait

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Homophone: gate

Etymology 1

From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate.

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. A manner of walking or stepping; a bearing or carriage while moving on legs.
    Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.
  2. (equestrianism) One of the distinct patterns of locomotion exhibited by a horse, occurring either naturally or as a result of training.
Derived terms
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Verb

gait (third-person singular simple present gaits, present participle gaiting, simple past and past participle gaited)

  1. (transitive) To teach a specific gait to a horse.

Etymology 2

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
  2. (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

gait

  1. (rare) alternative form of gate (“way”)

Old Irish

Etymology

Matasović derives this from Proto-Celtic *gozdis, a variant of *gostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger”). The irregular vowel change is a dissimilation from got (“stammering”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡad̠ʲ/

Noun

gait f (genitive gaite, nominative plural gata)

  1. verbal noun of gataid: theft

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative gaitL gaitL gataH
vocative gaitL gaitL gataH
accusative gaitN gaitL gataH
genitive gaiteH gaitL gaitN
dative gaitL gataib gataib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of gait
radical lenition nasalization
gait gait
pronounced with /ɣ-/		 ngait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*gazdo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 155

Further reading

Scots

Noun

gait (plural gaits)

  1. goat
  2. alternative form of gate (“way”)

Siraya

Noun

gait

  1. boundary

References

  • Li, Jen-Kuei (2010), “gait”, in 新港文書研究 [Studies of Sinkang Manuscripts] (in Chinese), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡai̯t/

Verb

gait

  1. soft mutation of cait

Mutation

Mutated forms of cait
radical soft nasal aspirate
cait gait nghait chait

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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