saut

Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltus.

• IPA^(key): /so/

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• Rhymes: -so
• Homophones: sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux (general), sot, sots (except regionally)

saut m (plural sauts)

1. jump
2. (gymnastics) vault: Ellipsis of saut de cheval.
3. rapids (fast section of a river or stream)

• sauter

• “saut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• suât, tuas, usât

• IPA^(key): /saut/

saut

1. answer

saut

1. to shoot

saut

1. (nonstandard) past tense of syta

saut

1. satisfied. satiated
2. fed-up, sick of, had enough

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

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

saut (plural sauts)

1. salt
2. bitter consequences, retribution, smart, sharp, stinging words, sarcasm

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

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

From English south.

saut

1. south