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geat (plural geats)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “geat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
geat
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geat
| Declension of geat | ||||
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| uninflected | geat | |||
| inflected | geatte | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | geat | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | geatte | ||
| n. sing. | geat | |||
| plural | geatte | |||
| definite | geatte | |||
| partitive | geats | |||
geat
From Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Cognate with Old Frisian jet, Old Saxon gat, Old Dutch *gat, Old Norse gat.
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