gote

[英方]水道, 水路

词形变化

gotes 复数 gotes

别名

gout goat gott

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.

  2. 2.

    A drainage pipe.

    英国 方言
  3. 3.

    A deep miry place.

    苏格兰 英国 方言

词源

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

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