yote

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (to pour), from Old English ġēotan (to pour), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (to pour), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (to pour).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (to pour), West Frisian jitte (to pour), Dutch gieten (to pour), German gießen (to pour), Danish gyde (to pour). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjəʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

  1. (UK dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
  2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.
    • Chapman (Can we date this quote?)
      My fowls, which well enough
      I, as before, found feeding at their trough
      Their yoted wheat.

Etymology 2

From coyote.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjəʊt/, /ˈjəʊti/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt, -əʊti

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

  1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Pronunciation

Verb

yote

  1. simple past tense of yeet

Anagrams

Swahili

Adjective

yote

  1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
  2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
  3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).
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