gait – English noun declension

English noun forms of gait

Noun: gait
Singulargait
Pluralgaits

Sample Sentences

  • Carrying a heavy suitcase, he had a lopsided gait.

Etymology

From a specialised use of gate (“way, manner, behaviour, habit", properly "way, path, street, journey”), from Middle English gate (“way, path, road, street”), from Old Norse gata (“path, lane, alley, road”), from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“passageway, street”). Doublet of gate. See: Middle English Nouns 'gate', Old Norse Nouns 'gata'.