sout

See also: Sout., and söüt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

sout

1. Obsolete form of soot.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] 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

• Suto, -tous, Otsu, outs, oust, SOTU, Ōtsu, Tsou, tOSU, otsu, OTUs

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sœu̯t/

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)

1. salt

   Die seun het mos twee kilo sout gehaal.

   The boy must have brought two kilogrammes of salt.

Derived terms

• seesout
• soutmyn
• soutpan

Adjective

sout (attributive sout, comparative souter, superlative soutste)

1. 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.

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)

1. (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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsou̯t]

Verb

sout impf (perfective sesout)

1. (reflexive with se) to collapse, to cave in

   Synonyms: hroutit se, bořit se, sypat se

   Hrad se počal sout. ― The castle started collapsing.

2. (archaic) to pour

   Synonym: sypat

   Suli ze svého pytlíku mince. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Conjugation

Infinitive	sout, souti	Active adjective	sující
Verbal noun	—	Passive adjective	—

Present forms	indicative		imperative
	singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person	suji, suju (coll.)	sujeme	—	sujme
2nd person	suješ	sujete	suj	sujte
3rd person	suje	sují, sujou (coll.)	—	—

The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive sout.

Participles	Past participles		Passive participles
	singular	plural	singular	plural
masculine animate	sul	suli	sut	suti
masculine inanimate		suly		suty
feminine	sula		suta
neuter	sulo	sula	suto	suta

Transgressives	present	past
masculine singular	suje	—
feminine + neuter singular	sujíc	—
plural	sujíce	—

Related terms

• nasout
• odsout
• osout
• posout
• prosout
• přesout
• přisout
• sesout
• suť
• sypat
• vsout
• vysout
• zasout

 

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)