kraut

== English == === Etymology 1 === Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”). ==== Noun ==== kraut (countable and uncountable, plural krauts) Clipping of sauerkraut. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Verb ==== kraut (third-person singular simple present krauts, present participle krauting, simple past and past participle krauted) To make (into) sauerkraut. 1919, J. M. Smith, Muskogee Co., Okla., letter in Market Growers Journal, page 337: I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […] ===== Further reading ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== kraut (plural krauts) Alternative letter-case form of Kraut (“German person”). === Anagrams === Kartu, kurta == Latvian == === Alternative forms === (obsolete spelling) kŗaut === Etymology === From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH-. Cognate with Lithuanian kráuti, Proto-Slavic *krỳti (“to cover”) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ), Polish kryć, Czech krýt), Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Ancient Greek κρύπτω (krúptō, “I hide, I conceal”). === Verb === kraut (transitive, 1st conjugation, present krauju, krauj, krauj, past krāvu) to pile, to stack, to load ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== apkraut iekraut izkraut sakraut uzkraut ==== Related terms ==== krava (“cargo, freight”) krāvējs (“stacker”)