stut

Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *stuttijan. Cognate with German stützen (“to support”), Dutch stutten (“to support”), Danish støtte (“to support”), Norwegian støtte (“to support”), Swedish stötta (“to support”), Icelandic styðja (“to support”).

• steet, stutt stuit, stoot, stout

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To support, prop up.

   When the upper storey of the house was altered the roof had to be stutted up for the time being.

stut (plural stuts)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A support.

   These stuts buckled.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary

From Middle English stutten (“to stammer, stop short”), from Old English *stuttan (“to stop short, stutter”), from Proto-Germanic *stutjaną (“to stammer, stop short”). Cognate with German stutzen (“to hesitate, stumble, stop short”).

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (obsolete) To stutter.
   • a. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elenor Rumming:

     Another brought a spycke Of a bacon flycke;
     Her tonge was verye quycke,
     But she spake somwhat thycke:
     Her felow did stammer and stut

• “stut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Utts, tuts

• IPA^(key): /stʏt/

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• Rhymes: -ʏt

Deverbal from stutten.

stut m (plural stutten, diminutive stutje n)

1. support, prop

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

stut

1. inflection of stutten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Swedish stut, and English stot.

• IPA^(key): /stʉːt/

stut m (definite singular stuten, indefinite plural stuter, definite plural stutene)

1. a bull

   Synonyms: okse, tyr

   Coordinate term: ku

• “stut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• sutt, tust

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Swedish stut, and English stot.

• IPA^(key): /stʉːt/

stut m (definite singular stuten, indefinite plural stutar, definite plural stutane)

1. a bull

   Synonyms: okse, tyr

   Coordinate term: ku

• “stut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sutt, tust

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• IPA^(key): /stuːt/

stūt m

1. gnat, midge, biting fly

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: stout
  • English: stout

From Old Norse stútr, from Proto-Germanic *stautōną. Cognate with Danish stud, Norwegian stut, and English stot.

• IPA^(key): /stʉːt/

stut c

1. steer

• oxe

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