diot

See also: díot

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diot/ [d̪i.ot̪]
• Rhymes: -iot, -ot
• Hyphenation: di‧ot

Etymology 1

Verb

diot (masculine allocutive zioat, feminine allocutive zionat)

1. first-person singular, with third-person singular direct object, present indicative of esan and erran (“to say”)

Etymology 2

Verb

diot (masculine allocutive zioat, feminine allocutive zionat)

1. first-person singular, with third-person singular indirect object and singular direct object, present indicative of izan (transitive auxiliary)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djo/

• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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Noun

diot m (plural diots)

1. a type of sausage from Savoy

Further reading

• “diot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Old High German

Alternative forms

• deot, theot (before 10th C. CE)
• thiota, diota f (o-declension), thiot (9-11th C. CE)
• died, diet, tiet, thiet (from 10th C. CE)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu

Noun

diot f or m or n

1. people [10th–11th C. CE]

Usage notes

• de-voicing to teot, tiot, tiet is more common in eastern dialects, while the th- spelling is characteristic of, but not restricted to, Franconian texts.

Declension

Declension of diot (masculine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	diot	dioti
accusative	diot	dioti
genitive	diotes	dioto
dative	diote	diotim, dioten
instrumental	diotu	—

Declension of diot (feminine i-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	diot	dioti
accusative	diot	dioti
genitive	dioti	dioto
dative	dioti	diotim, dioten

Declension of diot (neuter a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	diot	diot
accusative	diot	diot
genitive	diotes	dioto
dative	diote	diotum
instrumental	diotu	—

Descendants

• Middle High German: diet
  • German: Diet

References

• Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth; Frings, Theodor; et al., editors (1952–2022), “thiot”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, via Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

diot

1. alternative form of dhìot