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, 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

Noun

yate (plural yates)

1. Any of several species of Eucalyptus.

Anagrams

• Taye, yeat

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ya‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈja.te]

Noun

yate

1. yacht

Derived terms

• magyate

 

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate, from English yacht.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ya‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈja.t̪e]

Noun

yate

1. yacht

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.

Noun

yate

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English yard.

Noun

yate

1. yard (measurement)

Middle English

Noun

yate (plural yatis)

1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝate/ [ˈɟ͡ʝa.t̪e]

• 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

Noun

yate m (plural yates)

1. yacht

Further reading

• “yate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yate (“yacht”), from English yacht, from Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjate/ [ˈjaː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ya‧te

Noun

yate (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜆᜒ)

1. yacht

Derived terms

• yatihan

 

Further reading

• “yate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Yola

Contraction

yate

1. Alternative form of yaate
   • 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