Etymology Explorer › Old French

Where does “sot” come from?

sot (Old French) comes from Medieval Latin sottus, from Aramaic s(h)ote — fool.

Ancestry of “sot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinsottusfoolish
2Aramaics(h)otefool

Words derived from “sot”

  • assot
  • zothuis
  • zot
  • asoten
  • assoten
  • asoter
  • sot
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