different between sot vs yot

English

Etymology

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), of obscure origin and relation. Compare Dutch zot (“silly”), French sot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: sought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

sot (plural sots)

1. (archaic) stupid person; fool
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 2

     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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• sottish

Translations

Verb

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.

   • I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

Derived terms

• besot
• sotted
• sot-weed

Translations

Anagrams

• OST, OTS, OTs, TOS, TOs, TSO, Tso, ost

Albanian

Alternative forms

• sod [sod] (Gheg)
• ??? [sot] (Arvanite)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *t?j?d?ti, from Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *?yeh? dh?itéy, dative-locative compound, literally ‘this day’. Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See ditë, which is related to the second component.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sot]

Adverb

sot

1. today

References

Catalan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

sot m (plural sots)

1. hollow
2. pit, hole
3. grave

Derived terms

• ensotar

Further reading

• “sot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin exs?ctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetian suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

Adjective

sot

1. dry

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so??t/, [?so?d?]

Noun

sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

1. (dated) disease

Synonyms

• sygdom

Derived terms

• blegsot
• farsot
• gulsot
• ildsot
• sotteseng
• svindsot
• vattersot

Further reading

• “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faliscan

Etymology

Cognate with Latin sunt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?so?t/

Verb

s?t

1. third-person plural present active indicative of esu

French

Etymology

From Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain origin, possibly a Semitic borrowing: Aramaic [script needed] (s(h)ote, “fool”), Hebrew ???? (sat, “transgressor, rebel”) or [script needed] (s(h)atooy, “drunk”), [script needed] (s(h)atyan, “drunkard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so/

Adjective

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

1. silly, foolish, stupid

Derived terms

• il n'y a pas de sot métier

Noun

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

1. imbecile, fool

Derived terms

• sottise

Further reading

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

References

• Mozeson, Isaac (2000): The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English

Friulian

Etymology

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

Preposition

sot

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

Adverb

sot

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

Derived terms

• disot

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin subtus.

Pronunciation

Adverb

sot

1. under, beneath
2. below

Luxembourgish

Verb

sot

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sot, sott, of obscure origin.

Alternative forms

• sotte, sote, sott, soth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/, /s??t/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• sotie
• sotliche
• sotschipe
• sotten

Descendants

• English: sot
• Scots: sot

References

• “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Adjective

sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

1. idiotic, unwise

References

• “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English s?t.

Noun

sot

1. Alternative form of soot (“soot”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *s?t?.

Noun

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

1. soot

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *s?t?.

Noun

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

1. soot

References

• “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?t/

Noun

s?t n

1. soot

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: soot, sot, sote, soote
  • English: soot
  • Scots: sute, suit

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so?t/

Noun

s?t f

1. sickness

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: sot

Scots

Adverb

sot

1. so (to contradict a negative clause)

References

• “sot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?t/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish s?t, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *s?t?.

Noun

sot n

1. soot

Declension

Related terms

• sota
• sotare

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish s?t, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz

Noun

sot c

1. (archaic) disease, sickness

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ost, ots, sto

Volapük

Noun

sot (nominative plural sots)

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

Declension

Synonyms

• bid

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic ???????? (as-saw?, “the whip”).

Noun

sot

1. whip
2. whipping, beating

Derived terms

• chgo?o sot

References

• 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)?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273

English

Etymology 1

From Greek ???? (giot), from German Jot. Doublet of iota.

Noun

yot (plural yots)

1. The letter ??, an uncommon variant of Jj used in Greek linguistics.

Etymology 2

Probably from an alteration of yet, yote (“to melt, weld”). More at yet, yote.

Verb

yot (third-person singular simple present yots, present participle yotting, simple past and past participle yotted)

1. (dialectal) To unite closely; fasten; rivet.

Synonyms

• fay

Anagrams

• Toy, Tyo, toy

French

Noun

yot m (plural yots)

1. yot

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Jod.

Noun

yot

1. iodine