Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A doorlike structure outside a house. · A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall. · A movable barrier. · A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo keep something inside by means of a closed gate. · To punish (a student) by not allowing to leave the college grounds. · To open (a closed ion channel). · To furnish with a gate.
From Middle English gate (the forms ȝate and ȝeat yielded the dialectal doublet yate), from the plural of Old English ġeat (specifically gatu), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”). See also Old Norse gat, Swedish and Dutch gat, Low German Gaat, Gööt.
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