ut

Meanings

1. 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.

2. 2
   conj

   Yorkshire eye dialect: that

   Never a day ut you are away passes quietly.

3. 3
   prep

   Yorkshire eye dialect: of

   He threw the gift ut God underfoot.

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.

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