# sout
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saʊt/
* Rhymes: -aʊt

### Noun

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

* “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: /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)
* 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)
* 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.

##### See also

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

### 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)
* (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: [ˈsou̯t]

### Verb

sout impf (perfective sesout)
* (reflexive with se) to collapse, to cave in
    Synonyms: hroutit se, bořit se, sypat se
    Hrad se počal sout. ― The castle started collapsing.
* (archaic) to pour
    Synonym: sypat
    Suli ze svého pytlíku mince. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Conjugation

| Infinitive | sout, souti | Active adjective | sující |
| Verbal noun | — | Passive adjective | — |
| Present forms | indicative | indicative | imperative | 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 | Past participles | Passive participles | Passive participles |
| | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| masculine animate | sul | suli | sut | suti |
| masculine inanimate | sul | suly | sut | suty |
| feminine | sula | suly | suta | suty |
| 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)