lych-gate
English
noun
Definitions
- A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.
Etymology
Compound from English lich (corpse) + English gate (way, passageway in an airport for embarking passengers, path, road).
Origin
English
gate
Gloss
way, passageway in an airport for embarking passengers, path, road
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
道, 路
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- 'Gater English
- Ambergate English
- Gategate English
- Newgate English
- Southgate English
- Stargateverse English
- algate English
- backgate English
- degate English
- dragon gate English
- e-gate English
- endgate English
- faregate English
- farmgate English
- floodgate English
- fluxgate English
- foregate English
- gate English
- gate rape English
- gate-happy English
- gateable English
- gatecrash English
- gatefold English
- gatehouse English
- gatekeep English
- gatekeeper English
- gateleg English
- gateless English
- gatelike English
- gateline English
- gateman English
- gatepier English
- gatepost English
- gateway English
- gatewise English
- gatewoman English
- headgate English
- hell gate English
- highgate English
- ingate English
- jumpgate English
- lich English
- lichway English
- lichyard English
- liftgate English
- matchgate English
- midgate English
- moongate English
- multigate English
- outgate English
- photogate English
- qugate English
- screwgate English
- stairgate English
- stargate English
- tailgate English
- tollgate English
- trigate English
- wastegate English
- watergate English
- waygate English
- wombgate English
- Gate German
- gate Dutch, Flemish
- gate Portuguese
- *gatą Proto-Germanic
- ゲート Japanese
- gate Middle English
- lich Middle English
- గేటు Telugu
- ဂိတ် Burmese
- ဂိတ်ဆုံး Burmese
- geti Swahili
- 게이트 Korean
- ligeyithi Swati
- gate Mauritian Creole
- geet Fiji Hindi
- lich
- gate
- degate
- ingate
- e-gate
- 'Gater
- algate
- qugate
- waygate
- gateman
- gateleg
- outgate
- lichway
- midgate
- gateway
- trigate
- endgate
- Newgate
- tailgate
- Gategate
- faregate
- backgate
- gatefold
- moongate
- liftgate
- gateless
- fluxgate
- highgate
- headgate
- wombgate
- gatepier
- gatewise
- tollgate
- farmgate
- lichyard
- gatepost
- stargate
- gatekeep
- gateline
- gateable
- jumpgate
- gatelike
- foregate
- screwgate
- multigate
- wastegate
- photogate
- matchgate
- Southgate
- gatehouse
- gate rape
- gatewoman
- stairgate
- floodgate
- Ambergate
- gatecrash
- hell gate
- watergate
- gate-happy
- gatekeeper
- dragon gate
- Stargateverse