Jute

See also: jute, juté, jûte, and Jüte

English

Etymology

From Latin plural Iuti, Iutae (in Bede), from Old English Ēotas. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *eut, from Proto-Germanic *eutaz, *eutaniz. The spelling was later influenced by Medieval Latin Jutae, Juti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːt/, /juːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophones: jute, ute

Noun

Jute (plural Jutes)

1. A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.

Derived terms

• Jutic
• Jutish

Translations

member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark

• Catalan: jut m
• Danish: jyde (da) c
• Faroese: júti m
• Finnish: juutti (fi)
• German: Jüte (de) m, Jütin f
• Hungarian: jüt
• Icelandic: Jóti (is) m
• Italian: iuto m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jyde m

  Nynorsk: jyde m

• Old English: Ēotas m pl
• Polish: Jut (pl) m
• Portuguese: juto m
• Russian: ют (ru) (jut)
• Spanish: juto m, juta (es) f
• Swedish: jute (sv) c
• Turkish: Jüt

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

German

Etymology

19th-century borrowing from English jute with a spelling pronunciation. Eventually from Sanskrit जूट (jūṭa, “twisted hair”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtə/
• Hyphenation: Ju‧te

• Audio

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Noun

Jute f (genitive Jute, no plural)

1. jute

Declension

Declension of Jute [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Jute
genitive	einer	der	Jute
dative	einer	der	Jute
accusative	eine	die	Jute

Derived terms

• Jutebeutel
• Juteleinwand
• juten
• Jutesack
• Jutetasche

Further reading

• “Jute” in Duden online
• “Jute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache