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.
Ancestry of “Yeats”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Yates | — |
| 2 | English | yate | Obsolete form of gate; Any of several species of... |
| 3 | Middle English | ȝate | Alternative form of gate |
Words derived from “Yeats”