gurt
English
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (West Country, UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːɹt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Etymology 1
editOrigin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter.
Noun
editgurt (plural gurts)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “gurt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.
Alternative forms
editAdjective
editgurt
- (UK dialect, West Country) Pronunciation spelling of great.
- Then I opens the cupboard door and I sees a gurt big spider looking up at me.
- 1842, The Sportsman, Volume VI: January to June, page 103:
- Zo ′e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o′ vlies — talk′d about ketchin′ whackin′ trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.
- 1845, Douglas Jerrold, editor, Shilling Magazine, Volume II: July to December, page 416:
- “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav′n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show′d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ′un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o′ crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle. […] ”
- 1884, John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature[1], page 27:
- “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
“Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
Not a bird, however, was to be found.
References
edit- ^ 1865, David Page, Handbook of Geological Terms, Geology and Physical Geography
Anagrams
editOld High German
editEtymology
editRelated to gurtil. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. are there other unsuffixed cognates?
Noun
editgurt m
Declension
editcase | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | gurt | gurta |
accusative | gurt | gurta |
genitive | gurtes | gurto |
dative | gurte | gurtum |
instrumental | gurtu | — |
References
edit- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
Turkmen
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Turkic *kūrt. Compare Turkish kurt.
Noun
editgurt (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
Yola
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą. Cognate with English gurts.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgurt (plural gurthes or gruts)
References
edit- 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 44
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