## Meanings
1. The stomach or belly, especially a large one.
2. A strong instinctive feeling rather than reasoned thought.
3. To destroy the inside of a building, especially by fire.
4. To remove the internal organs of a fish or animal.

## Examples
- You have developed quite a gut since I last saw you.
- My gut tells me that something is wrong here.
- The fire gutted the old factory in a few hours.
- He cleaned and gutted the fish by the river.

## Derived Forms
- beer-gut
- catgut
- deergut
- degut
- foregut
- gulligut
- gunt
- gut-bread
- gut-busting
- gut-check
- gut-churning
- gut-pudding

## Related Forms
- blood-and-guts
- gutted
- gutting

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: gut
- Root: gutt
- Root: *gut-
- Root: *ǵʰewd-
- Root: gutten

## Etymology
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

## AI Etymology
Gut comes from Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”). The historical chain includes gut (Middle English), gutt (Old English), *gut- (Proto-Germanic), *ǵʰewd- (Proto-Indo-European), and gutten (Middle English). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as beer-gut, catgut, deergut, and degut and related forms such as blood-and-guts, gutted, and gutting. In present use it covers the stomach or belly, especially a large one, a strong instinctive feeling rather than reasoned thought, and to destroy the inside of a building, especially by fire.

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- Describing Qualities
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