Where does “Yeats” come from?

Yeats is an English surname derived from English yate, English gate, Old Norse gata, Proto-Germanic gatwǭ, and Proto-Indo-European ǵʰayd-, ultimately from a root meaning to go or move.

Yeats (English): The author and poet W. B. Yeats

Definitions

  1. The author and poet W. B. Yeats

Ancestry of “Yeats”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYates—
2EnglishyateObsolete form of gate; Any of several species of...
3Middle EnglishȝateAlternative form of gate

Words derived from “Yeats”

Every word from Middle English ȝate →Every word from English yate →Every word from English Yates →