gaiter

== English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”). Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.tə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/ Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ) Homophones: gater, gator ==== Noun ==== gaiter (plural gaiters) A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep. Coordinate term: spats A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe. A neck gaiter. A part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop. (automotive) A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== spat ==== Verb ==== gaiter (third-person singular simple present gaiters, present participle gaitering, simple past and past participle gaitered) (transitive) To dress with gaiters. ==== Further reading ==== gaiters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Etymology 2 === From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) +‎ trēow (“tree”). ==== Noun ==== gaiter (plural gaiters) (obsolete, dialectal) The dogwood, or a similar shrub. ==== References ==== “gaiter, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “gāte-trēow”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC. === Anagrams === aigret, tirage, triage, trigae == Catalan == === Etymology === From gaita +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəjˈte] IPA(key): (Valencia) [ɡajˈteɾ] === Noun === gaiter m (plural gaiters, feminine gaitera, feminine plural gaiteres) bagpiper === Further reading === “gaiter”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 == Old French == === Verb === gaiter alternative form of gaitier ==== Conjugation ==== This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.