different between wot vs oot
wot
- See also: WOT
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (UK) enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /w?t/
- (US) enPR: wät, IPA(key): /w?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
- Homophones: watt, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
An extension of the present-tense form of wit (verb) to apply to all forms.
Verb
wot (third-person singular simple present wots, present participle wotting, simple past and past participle wotted)
- (archaic) To know.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
- He that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
- 1855, John Godfrey Saxe, Poems, Ticknor & Fields 1855, p. 121:
- She little wots, poor Lady Anne! Her wedded lord is dead.
- 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" in Poems and Ballads, 1st Series, London: J. C. Hotten, 1866:
- They wot not who make thither […]
- 1889, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains, Inkling Books 2003, p. 241:
- Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were […]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:
Etymology 2
From wit, in return from Old English witan.
Verb
wot
- first-person singular present indicative of wit
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
Etymology 3
Representing pronunciation.
Interjection
wot
- Pronunciation spelling of what.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
- Then, wot with undertakers, and wot with parish clerks, and wot with sextons, and wot with private watchmen (all awaricious and all in it), a man wouldn't get much by it, even if it was so.
- (popular slogan during wartime rationing)
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin 2003, p. 319)
Etymology 4
Adverb
wot (not comparable)
- (Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
Anagrams
- OTW, TOW, Tow, WTO, owt, tow, two
Kriol
Etymology
From English what.
Pronoun
wot
- (interrogative) what
Synonyms
- wani/wanim
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
wot (with genitive)
- Superseded spelling of wót.
Middle English
Verb
wot
- first/third-person singular present indicative of witen
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English ward.
Noun
wot
- ward
wot From the web:
- what wot means
- what wotc mean
- what with
- what withholding should i claim
- what word
- what wotakoi character are you
- what witch hazel good for
- what withdraw mean
oot
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -u?t
Pronoun
oot
- (Tyneside) anything
Synonyms
- owt
Anagrams
- OTO, Oto, oto, oto-, too
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- alt (most dialects)
Etymology
From Middle High German alt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t/
Adjective
oot (masculine aue, feminine au, comparative auer or äuer or älder, superlative et ootste or äutste or ältste)
- (westernmost Ripuarian) old
Finnish
Verb
oot
- (colloquial) second-person singular indicative present of olla
See also
- oon
Noun
oot
- Nominative plural form of oo.
Ingrian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o?t/
Verb
oot
- second-person singular indicative present active of olla
References
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?[1]
Scots
Etymology
From Old English ?t
Adverb
oot (not comparable)
- out
Pronoun
oot
- (South Scots) anything
Usage notes
A hypercorrection of owt, generally used by the younger generation.
Seri
Noun
oot (plural ootolc)
- coyote
oot From the web:
- what ootd means
- what oot means
- what ooty is famous for
- what ooto means
- what oot stand for
- what ootd hashtag meaning
- what ootf means
- foot file
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