gote

Meaning

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. A drainage pipe.
3. A deep miry place.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gote

Inherited from Old English: *gote

Cognate with Dutch: goot

Cognate with German: Gosse

Cognate with Old English: gutt

Cognate with Old English: ġēotan

In summary

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).
Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.