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sot

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sot

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sotho.

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).[1][2]

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

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sot (plural sots)

  1. (archaic) Stupid person; fool.
  2. Drunkard.
    • 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:
      Every sign
      That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
    • April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235
      Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

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sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

  1. To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
    • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
      I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.
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Etymology 3

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Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

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Adjective

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sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar) Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.
    • 2020 July 11, @risaannwong, Twitter‎[2]:
      Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE

Etymology 4

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From Cantonese short (sot1, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

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sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot, reduplicated sot sot)

  1. (Singlish, Manglish) Insane, crazy, screwed up.
    • 2024 March 4, Unregistered, “Shopee fresh grad pay”, in Salary.sg Forums:
      all swe [software engineers] recently sot sot one. spent the last 3 years chasing too much headline salaries but now tech winter so all scared and frustrated . frustrations boiling over

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sot (invariable)

  1. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
    • 2009 May 29, anric79, “[Group] YAMAHA Fazer”, in singaporebikes.com:
      my stock horn sot sot liao
  2. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To go crazy.
    • 2021 July 13, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:
      All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao

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  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy (dative-locative compound, literally “this day”). Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.

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sot

  1. today

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  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 142, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Λεξικόν της Ρωμαϊκοις και Αρβανητηκής Απλής (Lexicon of the simple Romaic and Arbanitic language), page 89, by Markos Botsaris

Catalan

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Etymology

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From Paleo-Hispanic root *(t)sott-.

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Noun

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sot m (plural sots)

  1. hollow
  2. pit, hole
  3. grave

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Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetan suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

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sot

  1. dry

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.

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  • IPA(key): /soːˀt/, [ˈsoˀd̥]

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sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

  1. (dated) disease

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Faliscan

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Etymology

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Cognate with Latin sunt.

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sōt

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of 𐌄𐌔𐌞 (esú)

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).[1][2]

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sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

  1. silly, foolish, stupid

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Noun

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sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

  1. imbecile, fool

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References

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  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetan sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

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sot

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

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sot

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

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Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin subtus.

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Adverb

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sot

  1. under, beneath
  2. below

Luxembourgish

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Verb

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sot

  1. inflection of soen:
    1. second-person plural present/preterite indicative
    2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).[1][2]

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sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)

  1. One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
  2. A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
  3. (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.
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  • English: sot
  • Scots: sot
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Adjective

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sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

  1. idiotic, unwise
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  1. ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Etymology 2

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From Old English sōt.

Noun

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sot

  1. Alternative form of soot (“soot”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

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sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

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sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

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Noun

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sōt n

  1. soot

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative sōt sōt
accusative sōt sōt
genitive sōtes sōta
dative sōte sōtum

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Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

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Noun

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sōt f

  1. sickness

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Declension of sōt (i-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sōt sōttin sōtti(r), -e(r) sōttina(r), sōttena(r)
accusative sōt sōttina, -ena sōtti(r), -e(r) sōttina(r), sōttena(r)
dative sōt sōttinni, -inne sōttum, -om sōttumin, -omen
genitive sōtta(r) sōttinna(r) sōtta sōttanna

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  • sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T

Scots

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Adverb

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sot

  1. so (to contradict a negative clause)
    • 1897, J. Mackinnon, Braefoot Sketches:
      “I wisna a grain feart.” “Ye wis sot. Ye ran like the rest o's.”
      “I wasn't scared at all.” “You was so. You ran like the rest of us.”

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Sranan Tongo

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Determiner

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sot

  1. Pronunciation spelling of sortu (“what kind of”).

Swedish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

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sot n

  1. soot
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Declension of sot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sot sots
definite sotet sotets
plural indefinite — —
definite — —
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Etymology 2

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From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

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sot c

  1. (archaic) disease, sickness
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Declension of sot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sot sots
definite soten sotens
plural indefinite soter soters
definite soterna soternas
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Volapük

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Noun

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sot (nominative plural sots)

  1. a sort
  2. a kind
  3. a type

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Declension of sot
singular plural
nominative sot sots
genitive sota sotas
dative sote sotes
accusative soti sotis
vocative 1 o sot! o sots!
predicative 2 sotu sotus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Waigali

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Waigali cardinal numbers
 <  6 7 8  > 
    Cardinal : sot

Etymology

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From Proto-Nuristani *satta, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

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sot (Nisheigram)[1]

  1. seven

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  1. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “sot”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎[1]

Zoogocho Zapotec

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

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sot

  1. whip
  2. whipping, beating

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References

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  • Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273
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