sout
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English
Pronunciation
Noun
sout
- Obsolete form of soot.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His head and beard with sout were ill bedight
References
- “sout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch zout, from Middle Dutch sout, from Old Dutch *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun), *saltaz (adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.
Noun
sout (plural soute)
- salt
- Die seun het mos twee kilo sout gehaal.
- The boy must have brought two kilogrammes of salt.
Derived terms
Adjective
sout (attributive sout, comparative souter, superlative soutste)
- salt, salty
- Is dit nie te sout nie?
- Isn't it too salty?
- Die sout seewind waai deur sy hare.
- The salt sea wind is blowing through his hairs.
See also
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Etymology 2
From Dutch zouten, from Middle Dutch souten, from Old Dutch *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltaną.
Verb
sout (present sout, present participle soutende, past participle gesout)
- (transitive) to salt, to salten
- Ons moet die sop gaan sout.
- We have to go salt the soup.
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech súti, from Proto-Slavic *suti.
Pronunciation
Verb
sout impf (perfective sesout)
- (reflexive with se) to collapse, to cave in
- Synonyms: hroutit se, bořit se, sypat se
- Hrad se počal sout. ― The castle started collapsing.
- (archaic) to pour
- Synonym: sypat
- Suli ze svého pytlíku mince. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive sout. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “souti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “souti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “sout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025