saut

See also: saût

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin saltus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so/

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• Homophones: sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux, sot, sots

Noun

saut m (plural sauts)

1. jump

Derived terms

Derived terms

• saut à l’élastique
• saut à la perche (“pole vault”)
• saut en chute libre
• saut carpé
• saut à ski (“ski jump, ski jumping”)
• saut de l’ange (“swan dive”)

• saut de lapin (“bunny hop”)
• saut-de-loup (“(wide) ditch, haha; opening placed at ground level that allows natural light to illuminate a basement”)
• saut en hauteur (“high jump”)
• saut en longueur (“long jump”)
• triple saut (“triple jump”)

Related terms

• sauter (“to jump, leap; to bang, hump, have sex with”)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• suât, tuas, usât

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Latgalian

Verb

saut

1. to shoot

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Scots

Etymology

From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɑːt], [sɔːt]
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [saːt]

Noun

saut (plural sauts)

1. salt
2. bitter consequences, retribution, smart, sharp, stinging words, sarcasm

Derived terms

• saut bree
• saut dish
• saut's sel
• saut-backet
• saut-watter
• sauter
• sautie
• wirth saut til his kail

 

Verb

saut (third-person singular simple present sauts, present participle sautin, simple past sautit, past participle sautit)

1. to preserve in salt, pickle, sprinkle with salt
2. to punish, take revenge, snub, repress, treat severely

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English south.

Noun

saut

1. south