zouti

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French outils (“tools”). In French, the plural form outils is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, outils was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuti/

Noun

zouti

  1. tool
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