saut

See also: saût

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin saltus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /so/
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Homophones: sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux, sot, sots

Noun

saut m (plural sauts)

jump

Derived terms

Derived terms

saut à l'élastique
saut à la perche (“pole vault”)
saut en chute libre
saut carpé
saut à ski (“ski jump, ski jumping”)
saut de l'ange (“swan dive”)

saut de lapin (“bunny hop”)
saut-de-loup (“(wide) ditch, haha; opening placed at ground level that allows natural light to illuminate a basement”)
saut en hauteur (“high jump”)
saut en longueur (“long jump”)
triple saut (“triple jump”)

Related terms

sauter (“to jump, leap; to bang, hump, have sex with”)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

suât, tuas, usât

Latgalian

Verb

saut

to shoot

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sɑːt], [sɔːt]
(Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [saːt]

Noun

saut (plural sauts)

salt
bitter consequences, retribution, smart, sharp, stinging words, sarcasm

Derived terms

saut-backet
saut bree
saut dish
sauter
sautie
saut's sel
saut-watter
wirth saut til his kail

Verb

saut (third-person singular present sauts, present participle sautin, past sautit, past participle sautit)

to preserve in salt, pickle, sprinkle with salt
to punish, take revenge, snub, repress, treat severely

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English south.

Noun

saut

south

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