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yote

/ˈjəʊt/

yote verb: to pour water on; pour in. Also the clipping of coyote.

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
  2. (archaic, dialectal) To steep.
    • Chapman
      My fowls, which well enough
      I, as before, found feeding at their trough
      Their yoted wheat.

Also used as

yote is also the clipping of coyote.

yote is also the simple past of yete.

yote is also the simple past of yeet.

Forms of yote

Verb
third-person singular presentyotes
present participleyoting
past participleyoted
pastyoted
Noun
pluralyotes

Origin of yote

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Apheretic form of coyote.

Words that rhyme with yote

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Questions about yote

What does yote mean?
Yote means to pour water on; pour in.
What part of speech is yote?
Yote is a verb.
How do you pronounce yote?
Yote is pronounced /ˈjəʊt/.
What is the past tense of yote?
The past tense of yote is yoted.

Words near yote in the dictionary

  1. Yosu
  2. yosuzume
  3. yot
  4. yotated
  5. yotation
  6. yote
  7. yoted
  8. yotes
  9. Yother
  10. Yothers
  11. yoting

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