Noun: zout
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Wie heeft er twee kilo zout in mijn soep gedaan? Nu smaakt het ranzig! (Who's put two kilogrammes of salt in my soup? It tastes putrid now!)
Nouns inflected like zout
motiveering,
Duitse herdershond,
urilift,
vervolmaking,
elektrische spanning,
ovenfriet,
winteravond,
weervrouw,
besteding,
bloemenveiling,
vertakking,
tintinofiel,
synaps,
olieraffinaderij,
vliegtuigkaping,
sawaslang,
verzetting,
afrondfout,
druivenoogst,
wintermaand, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sout, from Old Dutch *salt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt. The noun is from Proto-Germanic *saltą, the adjective from *saltaz. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *sḗh₂l. Compare German Salz, West Frisian sâlt, English salt, Danish salt.
Verbs referencing "zout"
English Nouns
salt, German Nouns
Salz.
Translations