kraut

See also: Kraut

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”).

Noun

kraut (countable and uncountable, plural krauts)

1. Clipping of sauerkraut.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     The bacon fat and the browned ribs and the boiling kraut smelled good.

Derived terms

• kraut juice

Verb

kraut (third-person singular simple present krauts, present participle krauting, simple past and past participle krauted)

1. To make (into) sauerkraut.
   • 1919, J. M. Smith, Muskogee Co., Okla., letter in Market Growers Journal, page 337:

     I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]

   • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Perishable Agricultural Commodities: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 5023, Aug. 9 and 10, 1961, page 119:

     The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.

   • 2017 June 22, Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca, A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:

     They krauted cabbage, picked saskatoons and dried them for the winter. The whole family contributed to the welfare of the home for there was no room for a drone in their midst.

Further reading

• 2021 October 21, Harold F. Farwell, J. Karl Nicholas, Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:

  kraut: v.t. [to make sauerkraut.] "I don't do like old Mis' Posey, kraut my cabbage whole" (A; J 2:429). "Mrs. Barnett and I, in one day, cut up 100 lbs. of cabbage and 'krauted it' all, […] (J 2:419).

Etymology 2

Noun

kraut (plural krauts)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Kraut (“German person”)

Anagrams

• Kartu, kurta

Latvian

Alternative forms

• (obsolete spelling) kŗaut

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH-. Cognate with Lithuanian kráuti, Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ), Polish kryć, Czech krýt), Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō, “I hide, I conceal”).

Verb

kraut (transitive, 1st conjugation, present krauju, krauj, krauj, past krāvu)

1. to pile, to stack, to load

Conjugation

conjugation of kraut

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)
1st pers. sg.	es	krauju	krāvu	kraušu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	krauj	krāvi	krausi	krauj
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	krauj	krāva	kraus	lai krauj
1st pers. pl.	mēs	kraujam	krāvām	krausim	krausim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	kraujat	krāvāt	krausiet, krausit	kraujiet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	krauj	krāva	kraus	lai krauj
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	kraujot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		kraujošs
Past	esot krāvis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		kraudams
Future	kraušot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		kraujot
Imperative	lai kraujot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		kraujam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		krāvis
Present	krautu		Present Passive		kraujams
Past	būtu krāvis		Past Passive		krauts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jākrauj		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		kraut
Conjunctive 1	esot jākrauj		Negative Infinitive		nekraut
Conjunctive 2	jākraujot		Verbal noun		kraušana

Derived terms

• apkraut
• iekraut
• izkraut
• sakraut
• uzkraut

Related terms

• krava (“cargo, freight”)
• krāvējs (“stacker”)