zouti

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French outils (“tools”). In French, the plural form outils is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, outils was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zuti/

Noun

zouti

tool