sot

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Translingual

Symbol

sot

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sotho.

English

Etymology

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sot (plural sots)

  1. (archaic) stupid person; fool
  2. drunkard
    • 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:
      Every sign
      That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
    • April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235
      Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.

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Verb

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

  1. To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. , London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
      I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

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Translations

References

  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy (dative-locative compound, literally “this day”). Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.

Pronunciation

Adverb

sot

  1. today

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References

  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 142, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Λεξικόν της Ρωμαϊκοις και Αρβανητηκής Απλής (Lexicon of the simple Romaic and Arbanitic language), page 89, by Markos Botsaris

Catalan

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root *(t)sott-.

Pronunciation

Noun

sot m (plural sots)

  1. hollow
  2. pit, hole
  3. grave

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Further reading

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetian suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

Adjective

sot

  1. dry

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.

Pronunciation

Noun

sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

  1. (dated) disease

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Further reading

Faliscan

Etymology

Cognate with Latin sunt.

Pronunciation

Verb

sōt

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of esu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

  1. silly, foolish, stupid

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Noun

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

  1. imbecile, fool

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetian sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

Preposition

sot

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

Adverb

sot

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

Derived terms

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin subtus.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

sot

  1. under, beneath
  2. below

Luxembourgish

Verb

sot

  1. inflection of soen:
    1. second-person plural present/preterite indicative
    2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)

  1. One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
  2. A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
  3. (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: sot
  • Scots: sot
References

Adjective

sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

  1. idiotic, unwise
References
  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Etymology 2

From Old English sōt.

Noun

sot

  1. Alternative form of soot (“soot”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sōt n

  1. soot

Declension

Declension of sot (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative sōt sōt
accusative sōt sōt
genitive sōtes sōta
dative sōte sōtum

Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Pronunciation

Noun

sōt f

  1. sickness

Declension

Declension of sōt (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sōt sōttin sōtti(r), -e(r) sōttina(r), sōttena(r)
accusative sōt sōttina, -ena sōtti(r), -e(r) sōttina(r), sōttena(r)
dative sōt sōttinni, -inne sōttum, -om sōttumin, -omen
genitive sōtta(r) sōttinna(r) sōtta sōttanna

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Descendants

References

  • sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T

Scots

Adverb

sot

  1. so (to contradict a negative clause)
    • 1897, J. Mackinnon, Braefoot Sketches:
      “I wisna a grain feart.” “Ye wis sot. Ye ran like the rest o's.”
      “I wasn't scared at all.” “You was so. You ran like the rest of us.”

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Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot n

  1. soot
Declension
Declension of sot 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative sot sotet — —
Genitive sots sotets — —
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Noun

sot c

  1. (archaic) disease, sickness
Declension
Declension of sot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sot soten soter soterna
Genitive sots sotens soters soternas
Derived terms
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Anagrams

Volapük

Noun

sot (nominative plural sots)

  1. a sort
  2. a kind
  3. a type

Declension

declension of sot
singular plural
nominative sot sots
genitive sota sotas
dative sote sotes
accusative soti sotis
vocative 1 o sot! o sots!
predicative 2 sotu sotus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

Noun

sot

  1. whip
  2. whipping, beating

Derived terms

References

  • Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273
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