gyte

From Old Norse gjóta.

gyte (imperative gyt, present tense gyter, passive gytes, simple past gjøt or gytte, past participle gytt, present participle gytende)

1. to spawn (of fish)

• “gyte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• gjota, gjote, gyta

From Old Norse gjóta, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.

gyte (present tense gyter or gyt, past tense gytte or gaut, past participle gytt or gote, passive infinitive gytast, present participle gytande, imperative gyt)

1. (of fish) to spawn

• “gyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *guti, from Proto-Germanic *gutiz (“gush, outflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Old Frisian gete, Old High German guz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡy.te/

gyte m

1. pouring
2. shedding (of blood, sweat, tears)
3. inundation, flood

• blōdgyte

• ġēotan
• gutt

• Middle English: gute, gyte, gite

• gite, geit, geyt, gaet
• geite (obsolete)

Unknown. Also found in Northern English dialects. In the "boy" sense, possibly from get (“offspring”).

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gyte

1. crazy or mad; delirious; out of one's senses
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     the gudeman's gane clean gyte, I think.

2. foolish; demented

gyte (plural gytes)

1. A madman; fool
2. A first-year boy at the Royal High School, Edinburgh or Edinburgh Academy.

• Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1952