sot

Clipping of English Sotho or abbreviation of Sotho Sesotho.

sot

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sotho.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sotho terms

• IPA^(key): /sɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophone: sought (cot–caught merger)

• Audio (Southern England):

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From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).^[1][2]

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

sot (plural sots)

1. (archaic) Stupid person; fool.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Remember
     First to possess his books; for without them
     He's but a sot, as I am […]

   • c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated

     In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
     And reverence some deified Baboon.

2. Drunkard.
   • 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:

     Every sign
     That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

   • April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235

     Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.

• (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

• sottish

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

1. To drink until one becomes drunk
2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

• besot
• sotted
• sot-weed

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /sɒt/

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot)

1. (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar) Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.
   • 2020 July 11, @risaannwong, Twitter‎^[2]:

     Ngl still damn sot about PV barging into Pasir Ris-Punggol and forcing a vote-split. The disrespect towards SDA was NOT ACCEPTABLE

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot, reduplicated sot sot)

1. (Singlish, Manglish) Insane, crazy, screwed up.
   • 2024 March 4, Unregistered, “Shopee fresh grad pay”, in Salary.sg Forums:

     all swe [software engineers] recently sot sot one. spent the last 3 years chasing too much headline salaries but now tech winter so all scared and frustrated . frustrations boiling over

sot (invariable)

1. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
   • 2009 May 29, anric79, “[Group] YAMAHA Fazer”, in singaporebikes.com:

     my stock horn sot sot liao

2. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To go crazy.
   • 2021 July 13, Unregistered, “Roles in accenture singapore”, in Salary.sg Forums:

     All these delusional ACN graduates. Must be OT so much until brain sot liao

• ToS, TOs, Tso, OST, sto, OTs, ost, OTS, ots, TOS, TSO

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Myanmar) /sɔt˧/
• (Lianghe) [sut³¹]
• (Longchuan) [sut⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [sut⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [sut⁵⁵]

sot

1. nest

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[3], Payap University, page 121

• sod — Gheg^[1]
• σὸτ — Arvanitika^[2]

From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy (dative-locative compound, literally “this day”). Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.

• IPA^(key): [sot]

sot

1. today

• sotmë, sormë

• sonte
• sivjet
• ditë

From Paleo-Hispanic root *(t)sott-.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

sot m (plural sots)

1. hollow
2. pit, hole
3. grave

• ensotar
• sotal

• “sot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetan suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

sot

1. dry

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.

• IPA^(key): /soːˀt/, [ˈsoˀd̥]

sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

1. (dated) disease

• sygdom

• “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Cognate with Latin sunt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːt/

sōt

1. third-person plural present active indicative of 𐌄𐌔𐌞 (esú)
   • 2009, Gabriël Bakkum, The Latin dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 years of scholarship (in English), Vossiuspers UvA, page 529:

     [---]fatecela·letezotxxiiii

Inherited from Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /so/

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  • Homophones: saut, sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux, sots
• (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA^(key): /sɔ/
  • Homophone: sots

sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

1. silly, foolish, stupid

• il n'y a pas de sot métier

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

1. imbecile, fool

• sottise

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

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetan sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

sot

1. under, beneath, underneath
2. below, south of

sot

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

• disot

From Latin subtus.

sot

1. under, beneath
2. below

sot

1. inflection of soen:
   1. second-person plural present/preterite indicative
   2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).^[1][2]

• sotte, sote, sott, soth

• IPA^(key): /sɔt/, /sɔːt/

sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)

1. One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
2. A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
3. (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.

• sotie
• sotliche
• sotschipe
• sotten

• English: sot
• Scots: sot

• “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2019.

sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

1. idiotic, unwise

• “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2019.

From Old English sōt.

sot

1. alternative form of soot (“soot”)

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sot” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

• IPA^(key): /soːt/

sōt n

1. soot

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: soot, soeth, sood, soote, sot, sote, soth, soyte, suotte, sude, sute (Northern)
  • English: soot
  • Scots: suit, sute
  • Yola: zoot

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

• IPA^(key): /soːt/

sōt f

1. sickness

• siuka

• Swedish: sot

• sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T

sot

1. so (to contradict a negative clause)
   • 1897, J. Mackinnon, Braefoot Sketches:

     “I wisna a grain feart.” “Ye wis sot. Ye ran like the rest o's.”

     “I wasn't scared at all.” “You was so. You ran like the rest of us.”

• “sot”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

sot

1. pronunciation spelling of sortu (“what kind of”)

• IPA^(key): /suːt/

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From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot n

1. soot

• sota
• sotare
• sotbrand (“chimney fire”)
• soteld (“chimney fire”)

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

sot c

1. (archaic) disease, sickness

• sota

• sot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• 1. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• 2. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• ost, ots, sto

sot (nominative plural sots)

1. a sort
2. a kind
3. a type

• bid

Waigali cardinal numbers

<  6	7	8  >
Cardinal : sot

From Proto-Nuristani *satta, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsot/

sot (Nisheigram)^[1]

1. seven

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

sot

1. whip
2. whipping, beating

• chgoꞌo sot

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273