*gaits

Runic: ᚷᚨᛁᛏᛊ Pronunciation: /ˈɣɑi̯ts/

noun · feminine · consonant stem

Meanings

goat

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Italic *haidos, but cannot be traced back to Proto-Indo-European. According to Bjørn, from the same source as Proto-Semitic *gady-, Proto-Berber *e-ɣăyd, Proto-Nakh *gaaʒaᶰ.

See also *kittīną (‘young animal’) and *kidją (‘goatling’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	gaits	gaitiz
Acc.	gaitų	gaitunz
Gen.	gaitiz	gaitǫ̂
Dat.	gaiti	gaitumaz
Inst.	gaitē	gaitumiz
Voc.	gait	gaitiz

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Descendants

*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- gade (Walloon)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- *geit (Old Dutch)
  - geit (Middle Dutch)
    - geit (Limburgish)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- *geit (Old Dutch)
  - geit (Middle Dutch)
    - geit (Dutch)
      - geit (Afrikaans)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- gāt (Old English)
  - got, gat, gathe, goth, goet, gote, gothe, goot (Middle English)
    - goat (English)
    - gait, gayt (Scots)
    - geearth, geearte, gurth (Yola)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gāt, *gēt (Old Frisian)
  - giet (North Frisian)
  - geit (West Frisian)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- *gāt, *gēt (Old Frisian)
  - Geet (Saterland Frisian)
    - Jitt (German Low German)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- geiȥ (Old High German)
  - geiȥ (Middle High German)
    - Geiss (Alemannic German)
    - Goaß (Bavarian)
    - Geiß (German)
    - Geess (Luxembourgish)
*gait (Proto-West Germanic)
- gēt (Old Saxon)
  - gete, geite (Middle Low German)
geit (Old Norse)
- djiet (Elfdalian)
- geit (Faroese)
- gait (Gutnish)
- geit (Icelandic)
geit (Old Norse)
- geit (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - geit (Norwegian Bokmål)
geit (Old Norse)
- get (Old Danish)
  - ged (Danish)
    - gjet (Norwegian Bokmål)
geit (Old Norse)
- gēt, ᚵᚽᛏ (Old Swedish)
  - get (Swedish)
𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits) (Gothic)
*kājccë (Proto-Samic)

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