cout

See also: coût

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku/
• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: cou, coup, coups, cous

Noun

cout m (plural couts)

1. post-1990 spelling of coût

Related terms

• couter

Further reading

• “cout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kalt, from Proto-West Germanic *kald.

Adjective

cout

1. cold
2. coolheaded

Inflection

Adjective
		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	Indefinite	cout	coude	cout	coude
	Definite	coude		coude
Accusative	Indefinite	couden	coude	cout	coude
	Definite			coude
Genitive		couts	couder	couts	couder
Dative		couden	couder	couden	couden

Alternative forms

• calt

Descendants

• Dutch: koud
  • Afrikaans: koud
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kautu
  • Negerhollands: koud, koude, kout, kot, kou
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: kout
  • → Kwinti: kowru
  • → Saramaccan: koto
• Limburgish: kaad
• West Flemish: koed, kod

Further reading

• “cout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cout (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I