Slootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Afrikaans sloot, from Dutch sloot, from Middle Dutch slote, sloot, from Old Dutch *slōt, from Proto-West Germanic *slaut.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsluːt/, /ˈsluːɪt/

名詞

sloot (plural sloots)

1. (South Africa) A ditch.
2. (South Africa, archaic) An irrigation channel.
   • 1901 April 26, “The March Rains”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 4, page 101:

     Gorton, Ixopo, continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The Ixopo has not been so low for the last fifty years. Some sluits around here have ceased running.

参照

• "sloot" in Dictionary of South African English

アナグラム

• loots, lotos, sotol, stool, tools, tosol