See also: Kraut

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

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.
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Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

kraut (plural krauts)

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

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Etymology edit

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 edit

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

  1. to pile, to stack, to load

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