gurt

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜːt/

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• (West Country, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝːt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜːɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t

Origin obscure. Possibly a metathesis of gutter.

gurt (plural gurts)

1. (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.^[1]

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

• gert
• girt

gurt

1. (UK dialect, West Country) Pronunciation spelling of great.

   Then I opens the cupboard door and I sees a gurt big spider looking up at me.

   • 1842, The Sportsman, Volume VI: January to June, page 103:

     Zo ′e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o′ vlies — talk′d about ketchin′ whackin′ trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.

   • 1845, Douglas Jerrold, editor, Shilling Magazine, Volume II: July to December, page 416:

     “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav′n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show′d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ′un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o′ crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle. […] ”

   • 1884, John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature‎^[1], page 27:

     “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
     “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
     Not a bird, however, was to be found.

• trug, turg

• grat (Föhr-Amrum)
• grut (Mooring)

From Old Frisian grāt, which derives from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz. Cognates include West Frisian grut.

gurt (comparative gurter, superlative gurtst) (Sylt)

1. big, great, large
2. tall

Related to gurtil. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. are there other unsuffixed cognates?

gurt m

1. girdle

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kūrt. Compare Turkish kurt.

gurt (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. wolf

• grut

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą. Cognate with English gurts.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊɾt/, /ɡɾʊt/
• Homophone: gurth

gurt (plural gurthes or gruts)

1. cutling, coarse oatmeal

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 44