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.