Re: Yards and gardens [Was:Re: "K"]

"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OTTOMH, the two separate words "gate" are connected, though distantly.
One gate you go through, the other you go along. Scandinavian _gata_ is
the along one, and English _geat_ the through one -- this one is also a
mountain pass and, I think, a gap in a wood. In Scots and Northumbrian,
"gae" still means "go" or "walk". Cf "gait". The go-through gates are
"yat" or "yate" in some places. The Wife of Bath was "gat-toothed" (I
have a sense that the "t" form of this expression survives in modern
spoken English).

In Afrikaans -- and, I guess, Dutch -- "hole" is "gat", including for
"hole-in-the-wall" (and the slang name for "anus").



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