Etymograph

English

gyatt

Gyatt comes from Proto-West Germanic *god ‘god, deity’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *gudą.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gudą‘god, deity’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*god‘god, deity’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150god
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500God
  5. English1500–presentsame form
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2009gyatt

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gudą‘god, deity’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*god‘god, deity’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150god
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500God
  5. English1500–presentsame form
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2009gyatt

Earliest quotation: 2009, @azzman, Twitter: “i say gyat dayum this coheed album is awesome!!!…”

The story

Popularized by YouTuber and Twitch streamer YourRAGE, who in June 2021 started a gag in which he would scream "GYATT" upon seeing an attractive woman's buttocks. In a 2023 video, he stated: Everybody used to say "god damn" or "golly" but I said it weird. I'd always say "gyatt", I would never say "god damn". Chat realized that, and a way of making fun of me in 2020, they started typing "gyatt" to mock me.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- ‘to pour’

chemist, futile, gust, futility, gush, geyser, ingot, 22 more

through Proto-West Germanic *god ‘god, deity’

giddy

through Old English god

good, 2 more

through Middle English God

god

Today it means

name Goddamn! Wow!

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *gudą / gyatt

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