gjóta

== Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈcouːta/ Rhymes: -ouːta === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse gjóta, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną. Cognate with Swedish gjuta, Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk gyte, Danish gyde, Old English ġēotan, Dutch gieten. ==== Verb ==== gjóta (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative gaut, third-person plural past indicative gutu, supine gotið) to spawn, to give birth to [with dative] Synonym: ala ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== gjóta f (genitive singular gjótu, nominative plural gjótur) hollow, hole ===== Declension ===== == Old Norse == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Germanic *geutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). === Verb === gjóta (singular past indicative gaut, plural past indicative gutu, past participle gotinn) to pour to cast (by extension) to spawn ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: gjóta Faroese: gýta Norwegian Nynorsk: gjota, gyta Dalian: Mora: gjota Elfdalian: djuta Old Swedish: giūta Swedish: gjuta Old Danish: giutæ Danish: gyde Norwegian Bokmål: gyte Gutnish: giauta === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “gjóta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 166; also available at the Internet Archive