Where does “gāt” come from?

gāt (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic gait, from Proto-Germanic gaits, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰayd-.

gāt (Old English): goat

Definitions

  1. goat

Ancestry of “gāt”, step by step

gāt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic gait

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicgaitgoat; thrush
2Proto-Germanicgaitsgoat
3Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰayd-—

via Germanic *gaits

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanic*gaits—

Words derived from “gāt”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰayd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic gaits →Every word from Proto-West Germanic gait →