gate – Middle English noun declension

Noun: gate

Sg.	gate
Pl.	gates; gaten; gate

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ[…] (If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]

Nouns inflected like gate

lende, herte, snake, soule, gate, hide, here,

Etymology

From Old English ġeat (singular, which yielded the forms with initial /j/) and its plural gatu (which yielded the forms with initial /ɡ/), from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Verbs referencing "gate"

English Nouns gate, English Nouns gait, Irish Nouns geata.