English
Woodgate
From wood + gate.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’
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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’
Old English widu
Old English wudu ‘wood’
Middle English wode ‘wood’
English wood
Proto-Germanic *gatą ‘hole, opening’
Proto-West Germanic *gat ‘opening, gate’
Old English ġeat ‘gate, door’
Middle English gate ‘gate’
English gate
Today it means
name A number of places in England: A hamlet in South Lakeland district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2885; appears as Wood Gate on 1981 OS map)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Woodgate