gyte
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
gyte (imperative gyt, present tense gyter, passive gytes, simple past gjøt or gytte, past participle gytt, present participle gytende)
- to spawn (of fish)
References edit
- “gyte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse gjóta, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
Verb edit
gyte (present tense gyter or gyt, past tense gytte or gaut, past participle gytt or gote, passive infinitive gytast, present participle gytande, imperative gyt)
- (of fish) to spawn
References edit
- “gyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *guti, from Proto-Germanic *gutiz (“gush, outflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Old Frisian gete, Old High German guz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gyte m
- pouring
- shedding (of blood, sweat, tears)
- inundation, flood
Inflection edit
Declension of gyte (strong i-stem)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Also found in Northern English dialects. In the "boy" sense, possibly from get (“offspring”).
Adjective edit
gyte
- crazy or mad; delirious; out of one's senses
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
- the gudeman's gane clean gyte, I think.
- foolish; demented
Noun edit
gyte (plural gytes)
- A madman; fool
- A first-year boy at the Royal High School, Edinburgh or Edinburgh Academy.
References edit
- Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1952