In Scottish and Northern English dialect, a variant of 'gate' meaning a street, pathway, or way through a place.
From Old Norse 'gata' meaning street, which came into Northern English through Norse settlement. Compare with modern 'gate' and 'gait.'
Gaet and its variants show how the Vikings left their fingerprints on English—Norse settlers gave Northern England and Scotland completely different words for 'street' than Southern England used.
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