# rut
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹʌt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /ɹʊt/
* Rhymes: -ʌt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

#### Noun

rut (countable and uncountable, plural ruts)
* (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
* The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
* Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
* (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
** 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 36:
    Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.
** 2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 34:
    All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.
** 2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in​ Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23:
    Early in ​Wicked Game,​ Steve goes into his first-ever rut.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rut.

##### See also

* heat

#### Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)
* (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
    Synonyms: blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
* (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
    Synonyms: do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
* (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
    Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
** 2004, Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom:“Alfred,” Ragnar continued scathingly. “All he cares about is rutting girls, which is good! […]”
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphosis”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 175:VVhat Piety forbids the luſty Ram / Or more ſalacious Goat, to rut their Dam?
* (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
    Near-synonym: hump
** 1999 May 22, Joanna Woodcock, “Female dog desire ?”, in alt.animals.dog‎ (Usenet):We have just rescued a dog from a shelter; she has a great personality, except the one problem with her is that she ocassionally likes to "rut" against my husband's leg or arm !
** 2001 September 8, Looney, “On a sidenote”, in alt.underground‎ (Usenet):I'd bend over and wait...and wait...and wait... finally turning around to see him rutting against a table leg.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

#### Noun

rut (plural ruts)
* A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: groove, furrow
* (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]
    Synonym: routine
* (figurative) A dull routine.
    Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
** 1980, Paul Weller (lyrics and music), “Going Underground”, in Setting Sons, performed by The Jam:Some people might say my life is in a rut / I'm quite happy with what I got

##### Derived terms

* in a rut
* rutway
* stuck in a rut

##### Translations
#### Verb

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)
* (transitive) To make a furrow.

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Further reading

* Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### See also

* rut roh (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* tru-, URT, UTR, Tur, RTU, TRU, tur, tru

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

### Etymology

From Old High German rōt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʀuːt/

### Adjective

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine and plural rut or ruh or rude, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)
* (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

#### Usage notes

* The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

### See also

Colors in Central Franconian · Färve (layout · text) :
| Wieß, Wies, Weiß | Jries, Greis, Jroo, Groo | Zjwats, Schwats |
| Rut, Roeëd; Kérmes, Karmieng | Amber; Brong, Broun, Brung, Broeng | Jäl, Jeël, Jell, Gäl; Oker |
| Liem, Lich Jrön | Jrön, Green, Grien, Jreun, Jröng | Minz Jrön; Donkeljrön, Donkerjreun, Donkeljröng |
| Turquoise, Turkwaas | Blau (Hellblau, Himmelblau) | Blau, Blauw, Bloo, Bloh (Donkelblau, Donkelbloo) |
| Violett; Indiego | Majénta; Lila | Rose, Rosrut |

## Classical Gaelic
### Pronoun

rut
* second-person singular of re

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rugītus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁyt/

### Noun

rut m (plural ruts)
* rut (sexual excitement)

#### Derived terms

* en rut

### Further reading

* “rut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* rút

### Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrut]
* Hyphenation: rut
* Rhymes: -ut

### Interjection

rut
* gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)
** 1893, Kálmán Mikszáth, Az eladó birtok‎:Csak az eperfa alatt sétálgató, felborzolt tollú pulyka kiabálta: rut, rut.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎, archived from the original on 19 October 2018:Rút! Rút! Rút! / Föl is, le is út: / mérges Pulyka, te szereted / csak a háborút!Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! / Go away: / angry Turkey, only you like / war!
** 2018 July 22, Csanádi Imre, Hangverseny (Concert)‎:Pulyka mondja: rut, rut, rut! / Aki kapzsi, mindig rút!(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Vilamovian
### Etymology

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Akin to German rot, Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood)

### Adjective

rūt
* red