sööt
German Low German
editAlternative forms
edit- söt, söte
- seut, säut
- seute (Osnabrückisch, Delbrück (near Paderborn))
- soite (Lippisch, Göttingisch-Grubenhagensch)
Etymology
editFrom Middle Low German sö̂te, from Old Saxon swōti, from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz. Cognate with English sweet.
Adjective
editsööt
- sweet
- 1871, Hermann Hartmann, Bilder aus Westfalen. Sagen, Volks- und Familienfeste, Gebräuche, Volksaberglaube und sonstige Volksthümlichkeiten des ehemaligen Fürstenthums Osnabrück, Osnabrück, p. 14:
- Hallôp, hallôp! N. N. heft Hedewegge to kôp.
Schmeckt so seute as Ferkenfeute (Schweinefüße).
Steckt der ein betken Botter in,
Schmeckt no eis so seute (süß)!- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1871, Hermann Hartmann, Bilder aus Westfalen. Sagen, Volks- und Familienfeste, Gebräuche, Volksaberglaube und sonstige Volksthümlichkeiten des ehemaligen Fürstenthums Osnabrück, Osnabrück, p. 14:
Further reading
edit- Peter Hansen (2024) “sööt”, in Digitales Wörterbuch Niederdeutsch (dwn)
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- German Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- German Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- German Low German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German Low German lemmas
- German Low German adjectives
- German Low German terms with quotations