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.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech súti, from Proto-Slavic *suti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsou̯t]

Verb

sout impf (perfective sesout)

1. (reflexive with se) to collapse, to cave in

   Synonyms: hroutit se, bořit se, sypat se

   Hrad se počal sout. ― The castle started collapsing.

2. (archaic) to pour

   Synonym: sypat

   Suli ze svého pytlíku mince. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Conjugation of sout

infinitive sout, souti active adjective sující verbal noun — passive adjective — present forms indicative imperative singular plural singular plural 1st person suji, suju (coll.) sujeme — sujme 2nd person suješ sujete suj sujte 3rd person suje sují, sujou (coll.) — — The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive sout. participles past participles passive participles singular plural singular plural masculine animate sul suli sut suti masculine inanimate suly suty feminine sula suta neuter sulo sula suto suta transgressives present past masculine singular suje — feminine + neuter singular sujíc — plural sujíce —

Related terms

• nasout
• odsout
• osout
• posout
• prosout
• přesout
• přisout
• sesout
• suť
• sypat
• vsout
• vysout
• zasout

Further reading

• “souti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “souti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Gullah

Alternative forms

• sowt, souf

Etymology

From English south.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊt/, /saʊf/

Noun

sout

1. south

Coordinate Terms

compass points: compass pine dem:  ^[edit]

nortwes	nort	norteas
wes		eas
soutwes	sout	souteas

References

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

• De Nyew Testament‎^[1], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025