Thankyou, Piotr. I shall keep my eyes skinned, and have a good going
over of my atlas for this one, and perhaps do my modest utmost to
reintroduce it into common circulation...
Ben
From: Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
Date: Sat Oct 5, 2002 2:24 am
Subject: 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