Talk:goat
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The verb sense. (Was added originally at goating.) —RuakhTALK 01:20, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Maybe confusion with goad? —RuakhTALK 01:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
RFV failed, sense removed. —RuakhTALK 21:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
West Frisian noun entry edit
I'm under pressure to assign all the jumbled Frisian into categories. Archaic West Frisian is my best GUESS over Old Frisian. My only reference is a purported 1892 almanac talking about rice crops! But the original date may be earlier. The work is pretty darned funny looking. :-) Corrections eagerly welcomed. Snakesteuben 10:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Never mind, per a native, the entry is correct. Snakesteuben 16:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
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I can't find this in any of my West Frisian dictionaries and word lists, so if this exists it's probably obsolete or exceedingly rare. —Rua (mew) 20:57, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
I do see where the entry may have come from, though. It is a rarer alternative form of goate, which has a totally different meaning. However, the Dutch word scheut can translate to both "plant shoot" and "splash of liquid". So maybe someone found the Dutch translation and mistranslated it into English. —Rua (mew) 21:08, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Rua Drago added this in 2006. Along with your inference about how the error could have arisen, it seems that the case can be closed. The hits on Google Books either meant "gutter", were unclear dialectal terms or were scannos.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 08:57, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Etymology edit
Why not add about the Latin word hædus "kid", as on the website: etymonline.com 5.18.197.191 16:34, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Does this word derive from the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰaidos? 173.88.246.138 22:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)