gangpyt

Old English

Etymology

From gang +‎ pyt.

Noun

gangpyt m

1. a latrine
   • c. 1000, Aelfric, Interrogationes Sigewulfi:

     On þære nyðemestan fleringe wæs heora gangpyt & heora myxen.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	gangpyt	gangpytas
accusative	gangpyt	gangpytas
genitive	gangpytes	gangpyta
dative	gangpyte	gangpytum

Descendants

• Middle English: gonge-put
  • Middle English: gongpit

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gang-pyt”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.