zut
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈzut]
Participle
zut
- masculine singular passive participle of zout
French
Alternative forms
- z'ut, zuth (obsolete)
Etymology
From 1813. Origin disputed:.
- 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
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
- j̈ut (Southeastern)
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]
References
- ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2025). The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
- ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016), “z′ut”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon[1]
- ^ Halfmann, Jakob (2024). A Grammatical Description of the Katë Language (Nuristani) (PhD thesis). Köln: Universität zu Köln.