sout
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Noun edit
sout
- 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 edit
- “sout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
sout (plural soute)
- salt
- Die seun het mos twee kilo sout gehaal.
- The boy must have brought two kilogrammes of salt.
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Adjective edit
sout (attributive sout, comparative souter, superlative soutste)
- 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 edit
From Dutch zouten, from Middle Dutch souten, from Old Dutch *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltaną.
Verb edit
sout (present sout, present participle soutende, past participle gesout)
- (transitive) to salt, to salten
- Ons moet die sop gaan sout.
- We have to go salt the soup.