sout

• IPA^(key): /saʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

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

• “sout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Suto, -tous, Otsu, outs, oust, SOTU, Ōtsu, Tsou, tOSU, otsu, OTUs

• IPA^(key): /sœu̯t/

From Dutch zout, from Middle Dutch sout, from Old Dutch *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą (noun), *saltaz (adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls.

sout (plural soute)

1. salt

   Die seun het mos twee kilo sout gehaal.

   The boy must have brought two kilogrammes of salt.

• seesout
• soutmyn
• soutpan

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.

Basic tastes in Afrikaans · smake (layout · text)
soet	suur	sout	bitter	skerp	-

From Dutch zouten, from Middle Dutch souten, from Old Dutch *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltaną.

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.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsou̯t]

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)

• “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)