suet

See also: süet and süt

English

Etymology

From Middle English suet, sewet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, from Old French seu, from Latin sebum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uːɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

suet (countable and uncountable, plural suets)

1. The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
   • 1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Edward Topsell, “Of Cowes”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 83:

     [T]he ſevvet of oxen […] is alſo good againſt the inflammation of the eares, the ſtupidity and dulneſſe of the teeth, the running of the eyes, the vlcers and rimes of the mouth, and ſtiffneſſe of the neck.

   • 1996, Laura Erickson, Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids:

     Many seed-eating birds also need animal fat and protein which they obtain from insects, animal carcasses, and suet.

   • 1998, Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction:

     Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.

Derived terms

• suet cake
• suet pudding

Translations

fat

• Armenian: երկիմաճարպ (erkimačarp), ճրագու (hy) (čragu)
• Azerbaijani: piy (az)
• Bulgarian: лой (bg) f (loj)
• Catalan: sèu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 板油 (zh) (bǎnyóu)

• Czech: lůj (cs) m
• Danish: nyrefedt n
• Dutch: niervet (nl) n
• Esperanto: sebo
• Faroese: mørur m
• Finnish: munuaisrasva (fi); tali (fi)
• French: suif (fr) f, graisse de rognon (de bœuf) f
• Galician: sebo m
• German: Flomenschmalz m
• Hebrew: חֵלֶב (he) m (khelev), שׁוּמַן כְּלָיוֹת m (shuman klayot)
• Hungarian: faggyú (hu)
• Icelandic: mör (is) m
• Irish: geir f
• Italian: sugna f
• Japanese: スエット (suetto)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەز (bez)

  Northern Kurdish: bez (ku)

• Latin: arvina f
• Macedonian: лој m (loj)
• Maori: taupā
• Middle English: talow, suet
• Norman: graîsse dé rîngnon f
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: netje f, ister n, istre f

• Ottoman Turkish: چرویش (çerviş)
• Persian: پیه (fa) (pih), وزد (vazd)
• Polish: sadło (pl) n, łój (pl) m
• Portuguese: sebo (pt) m
• Russian: нутряно́е са́ло n (nutrjanóje sálo), по́чечное са́ло n (póčečnoje sálo), са́ло (ru) n (sálo)
• Scottish Gaelic: saill f
• Serbo-Croatian: лој m, loj (sh) m
• Slovak: loj m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: łoj m

• Spanish: unto (es)
• Swedish: njurtalg c
• Welsh: siwed m

References

• “suet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “suet”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• Suet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Suet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Category:Suet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• ETUs, TEUs, TUEs, Tues, Utes, tues, utes

French

Noun

suet m (plural suets)

1. (nautical) southeast
2. (nautical) southeasterly (wind)

Latin

Verb

suet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of suō

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, diminutive of seu, from Latin sēbum.

Alternative forms

• sewet, sueth, suett, suette, suwet, swet, swete, sywete

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu̯ɛt/

Noun

suet (uncountable)

1. suet

Descendants

• English: suet
• Scots: shuet

References

• “seuet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

suet

1. Alternative form of sute