English
gut
Gut comes from Old English gutt ‘gut, entrail’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-‘to pour’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gut-reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150gutt‘gut, entrail’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gut
- Englishearliest quotation 1840gut
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰewd-‘to pour’reconstructed
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gut-reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150gutt‘gut, entrail’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gut
- Englishearliest quotation 1840gut
Earliest quotation: 1840, original 1824?, Gilchrist: “FRAE Team-Gut to Whitley, wi' coals black and brown,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- ‘to pour’
yet, founder, refuse, confusion, fusion, refund, font, confuse, fuse, funnel, foundry, confound, fondue, effusive, 47 more
Today it means
noun The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.