Meanings
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1
noun
music: the original solfege name for the first note of a major scale, now usually called do
The older hexachord was sung as ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la.
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2
conj
Yorkshire eye dialect: that
Never a day ut you are away passes quietly.
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3
prep
Yorkshire eye dialect: of
He threw the gift ut God underfoot.
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Etymology
The musical syllable comes from the first word of the Latin hymn line Ut queant laxis, used by Guido of Arezzo to name ascending notes. The Yorkshire function-word senses are unrelated eye-dialect spellings of reduced that and of.