sot
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sot
English edit
Etymology edit
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 (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /sɒt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- Homophone: sought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun edit
sot (plural sots)
- (archaic) stupid person; fool
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Remember
First to possess his books; for without them
He's but a sot, as I am […]
- c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
- In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
And reverence some deified Baboon.
- In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
- 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.
Synonyms edit
- (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
- (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
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Verb edit
sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)
- To drink until one becomes drunk
- 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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References edit
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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Etymology edit
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
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Catalan edit
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From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root *(t)sott-.
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sot m (plural sots)
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Further reading edit
- “sot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetian suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).
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sot
Danish edit
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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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sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)
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- “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faliscan edit
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sōt
French edit
Etymology edit
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)
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Noun edit
sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)
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References edit
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading edit
- “sot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
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From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetian sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.
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sot
- under, beneath, underneath
- below, south of
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sot
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sot
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sot
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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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Noun edit
sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)
- One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
- A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
- (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.
Adjective edit
sot (plural and weak singular sotte)
References edit
- “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English sōt.
Noun edit
sot
- Alternative form of soot (“soot”)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.
Noun edit
sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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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)
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- “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).
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sōt n
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From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.
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sōt f
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- Swedish: sot
References edit
- sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T
Scots edit
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sot
- 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.”
References edit
- “sot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.
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sot n
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | sot | sotet | — | — |
Genitive | sots | sotets | — | — |
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Etymology 2 edit
From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.
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sot c
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Declension of sot | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sot | soten | soter | soterna |
Genitive | sots | sotens | soters | soternas |
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- sot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- sot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- sot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- 1. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- 2. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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sot (nominative plural sots)
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Zoogocho Zapotec edit
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Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).
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sot
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References edit
- 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)[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273
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