different between gut vs kut

English

Etymology

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ??otan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.

The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Inland Northern American)
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gut (countable and uncountable, plural guts)

1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
2. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged

3. (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
4. A person's emotional, visceral self.

5. (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.

6. A narrow passage of water.

7. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

Synonyms

• (alimentary canal, intestine): alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards
• (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged): abdomen, beer belly, (enlarged), beer gut (UK, enlarged), belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy
• (intestines of an animal used to make strings): catgut

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gut (third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)

1. (transitive) To eviscerate.

2. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

Translations

Adjective

gut (comparative more gut, superlative most gut)

1. Made of gut.

2. Instinctive.

Related terms

• blood-and-guts

Translations

Anagrams

• UTG, tug

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• got (northern Moselle Franconian)
• jot (Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Old High German guod, northern variant of guot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/

Adjective

gut (masculine gude, feminine gut, comparative besser, superlative et beste)

1. (southern Moselle Franconian) good

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ut/, [??ud?]

Etymology 1

From Norwegian gutt.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, plural indefinite gutter)

1. boy, lad, bloke

Inflection

Etymology 2

From English gut.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, not used in plural form)

1. gut (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc)

Dutch

Etymology

A minced oath from god.

Pronunciation

Interjection

gut

1. gee

German

Alternative forms

• g?t (Early New High German)

Etymology

From Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed?-. Cognate to Luxembourgish gutt, Silesian German gutt, Dutch goed, West Frisian goed, English good, Danish god, Norwegian god and Swedish god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /??t/ (colloquial, chiefly for the interjection)
• (Germany)
• (Austria)
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)
2. good (effective; useful)
3. good (fortunate)
4. good (having a particularly pleasant taste)
5. all right, fair, proper (satisfactory)
6. good (full; entire; at least as much as)

Declension

Antonyms

• schlecht (qualitatively or ethically bad)
• böse (morally evil)

Derived terms

Adverb

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily)

2. a little more than (with measurements)

   Antonym: knapp

3. easily, likely

Interjection

gut

1. okay, all right, now then

Further reading

• “gut” in Duden online
• “gut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Noun

gut

1. Alternative form of gutte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch guit (“troublemaker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

gut m (definite singular guten, indefinite plural gutar, definite plural gutane)

1. a boy (young male)

Derived terms

• ballgut

See also

• gutt (Bokmål)

References

“gut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German guot. Compare German gut, Dutch goed, English good.

Adjective

gut (comparative besser, superlative bescht)

1. good
2. kind

Related terms

• besser
• bescht

Romansch

Noun

gut m (plural guts)

1. drop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English good.

Adverb

gut

1. well

Related terms

• gutpela
• nogut

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

gut

1. Soft mutation of cut.

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Norwegian gutt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

gut

1. A boy

English

Alternative forms

• goot
• gut

Etymology

From Korean ? (gut), romanized as kut under the McCune-Reischauer romanization system.

Noun

kut

1. A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin cubitum. Compare Aromanian cot.

Noun

kut m

1. yardstick

See also

• jard

Cahuilla

Noun

kút

1. fire

Dutch

Alternative forms

• cutte (obsolete)
• kutte (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Hyphenation: kut
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Derivation from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“abdomen, belly”) (compare Old Norse kviðr (“abdomen, belly”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (qiþus, “womb”) is unlikely. Probably kut is cognate with kuit (“spawn”) and kont (“ass”). Also Old Dutch quintuc (“genitals of a female dog”) [8th century] might be related.

Noun

kut f (plural kutten, diminutive kutje n)

1. (vulgar) vulva, especially the vagina; cunt, pussy
2. (vulgar, chiefly Brabantian, derogatory) a strongly disliked person; cunt, fuck

Derived terms

• flapkut
• gratenkut
• kut-
• kutlul
• kut met peren
• kutzwager
• sufkut

Interjection

kut

1. (vulgar, Netherlands) fuck!

Adjective

kut (comparative kutter, superlative kutst)

1. (vulgar, Netherlands) crap, not entertaining

   Synonym: ruk

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kut

1. first-person singular present indicative of kutten
2. imperative of kutten

References

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English good.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kut/, [?kut?]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: kut

Adjective

kut

1. (Finglish) Good.

References

• Hellstrom, Robert W. (1976) , “Finglish”, in American Speech, volume 51, issue 1/2, page 90

Norman

Alternative forms

• coute (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French coute, code (“elbow”), from Latin cubitum, from cub?, cub?re (“lie down, recline”).

Noun

kut m (plural kuts)

1. (Sark, anatomy) elbow

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *k?t?. Compare Compare Czech kout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kû?t/

Noun

k?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. corner
2. angle

Declension

Related terms

• kutak
• pravi kut

Synonyms

• ugao

References

• “kut” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

kut c

1. puppy; a young seal, chiefly of grey seal

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic ????????????? (q?¹ut¹), from Proto-Turkic *Kut (“luck, good fortune”).

Noun

kut (definite accusative kutu, plural kutlar)

1. luck

Derived terms

• kutlu

References

Tübatulabal

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kut (“firewood”).

Noun

kut

1. fire

References

• Voegelin, C. F. (July 1958) , “Working dictionary of Tübatulabal”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 24, issue 3, JSTOR 1263500, pages 221–228

Veps

Etymology

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

Adverb

kut

1. how, in what way (interrogative)
2. how, the way that (relative)

Derived terms

• kut-ni
• kut-se
• koje-kut
• nikut

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika