Re: [tied] Re: More Pliny's "Guthalvs"

"Chiefly in the north", according to the OED (the most recent citations given there are from the 19th c.). The first meaning given is 'watercourse, any channel for water, stream'. Another meaning that appears in the examples is 'sluice'. The OED lists also the variants goote, goat(e), gott, gaut, goit, goyt and gooat, e.g. "Reaching the goit, he walked along its muddy banks ..." (1897). I think there's a very good chance that the name Goyt belongs here.

Piotr

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From: Ben McGarr

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Subject: [tied] Re: More Pliny's "Guthalvs"

And the River Goyt in Cheshire, England? I have seen attempts to link it with some British word like 'Gwyth' or something similar meaning 'vein' but I no of no certain use of this for any Welsh hydronym. Whereabouts do we find this English dialectal 'gote', Piotr?