geotan

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Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *geutan.

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Verb

ġēotan

  1. to pour
  2. to shed (blood, sweat, tears)
  3. to cast, found (metal)
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Descendants
  • Middle English: yeten
    • English: yet, ewte (dialectal), yete (obsolete), yeet
    • Scots: ȝet, yet, yat
    • English: yote (via past participle yoten) (dialectal)
  • English: gut

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *getaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (take, seize, grasp). Cognate with Old Frisian jeta, Old High German gezan, gezzan, Old Norse geta (whence English get).

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ġeotan (Anglian)

  1. Alternative form of ġietan
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