zut

See also: žut, žuť, and žūt

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzut]

Participle

zut

  1. masculine singular passive participle of zout

French

Alternative forms

  • z'ut, zuth (obsolete)

Etymology

From 1813. Origin disputed:.

  • Combination of zest and flûte ;
  • Formed from a linking z and ut/hut, attested 1791:
  • Allons, allons, hut! pas de ça:Le Véritable P. Duchesne f., Grand compliment
  • qu'il aille à Charenton, et hut. Martainville, Une Demi-heure de cabaret, 1804
  • Sais-tu la musique ? eh bien ut. Ut, zut may be a corruption of the Latin ut, a word used in typographers' jargon: Ut […] C'est le premier mot du souhait que se faisoient en buvant les anciens imprimeurs […] : Ut tibi prosit meri potio (« Que grand bien vous fasse ce bon vin pur »). Par abréviation l'on se contenta ensuite du mot ut. Gattel, 1797
  • From an older word, zot, which is found in diablezot
  • It may be purely onomatopoeic, as pft, pfuit; see zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zyt/

Interjection

zut

  1. damn, shoot, dang, cripes, rats, "dash it!", "hang it all!"

See also

Further reading

  • zut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
  • Rudler, Gustave. Anderson, Norman C. Collins French Gem Dictionary French-English : English-French, 1952, latest reprint 1964.

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *j̈anta, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́anHtas (birth), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (to give birth).[1]

Noun

zut m (Western, Northeastern)[2][3]

  1. birth
  2. birth pang

References

  1. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  2. ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “z′ut”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon[1]
  3. ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.