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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

Etymology 1

From Middle English soule, sowle, saule, sawle, from Old English s?wol (“soul, life, spirit, being”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwal? (“soul”).

Cognate with Scots saul, sowel (“soul”), North Frisian siel, sial (“soul”), Saterland Frisian Seele (“soul”), West Frisian siel (“soul”), Dutch ziel (“soul”), German Seele (“soul”) Scandinavian homonyms seem to have been borrowed from Old Saxon *siala. Modern Danish sjæl, Swedish själ, Norwegian sjel. Icelandic sál may have come from Old English s?wol.

Alternative forms

• sowl (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /s??l/
• (General American) enPR: s?l, IPA^(key): /so?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophones: Seoul, sole, sowl

Noun

soul (countable and uncountable, plural souls)

1. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
   • 1836, Hans Christian Andersen (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), The Little Mermaid

     "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
2. The spirit or essence of anything.
3. Life, energy, vigor.
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.

4. (music) Soul music.
5. A person, especially as one among many.
   • 18 January 1915, D. H. Lawrence, letter to William Hopkin

     I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.

6. An individual life.

   Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.

7. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:soul.

Synonyms

• (spirit or essence of anything): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (a person): See also Thesaurus:person

Derived terms

Pages starting with “soul”.

Related terms

• mind
• spirit

Translations

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

2. To beg on All Soul's Day.

   Coordinate term: trick-or-treat

Derived terms

• besoul
• dark night of the soul

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French souler (“to satiate”).

Verb

soul (third-person singular simple present souls, present participle souling, simple past and past participle souled)

1. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner to this entry?)

References

• soul at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soul in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• soul in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Luso-, luso-

Czech

Noun

soul m

1. soul (music style)

Further reading

• soul in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul

1. soul music

Declension

Anagrams

• Sulo, solu, sulo, ulos

French

Alternative forms

• soûl, saoul

Etymology 1

From Latin satullus, diminutive of satur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su/
• Homophones: sou, sous

Adjective

soul (feminine singular soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

1. drunk

   Synonym: ivre

Derived terms

• souler

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sol/

Noun

soul f (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music

Further reading

• “soul” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so?l]
• Hyphenation: soul
• Homophone: szól
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

soul (plural soulok)

1. (music) soul music

Declension

Derived terms

• soulzene

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m or f (invariable)

1. soul music

Old French

Adjective

soul m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soule)

1. Alternative form of sol

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?wl/

Noun

soul m inan

1. soul music

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sow/
  • Homophone: sou (when pronounced with the /w/)

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. (music) soul music (a music genre combining gospel music, rhythm and blues and often jazz)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English soul.

Noun

soul m (uncountable)

1. soul, soul music