1866: -gate (Street) Jan 24, 2020

There are lots of streets marked in the UK as '-gate', such as 'Highgate' in London is not actually related to 'gate' as a word for doors in a wall. Instead, it comes from the same root as the German (especially Austrian) 'Gasse' meaning 'street'. Many English words have German equivalents for which the main phonetic difference is [s] in German to [t] in English.

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