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a leap of faith that lands neatly on a French verb's foot
means In Scots, to leap, jump, or spring — and as a noun, the leap itself.
from A Scots and Northern English form of "salt" in some senses, but as "leap" it descends from Old English "sealtan"/the same root behind "somersault" and "assault" — the Latin "saltare," to dance or leap, and "salire," to spring. So the resemblance to French "sauter" (to jump) is no accident: both bound back to that same Latin leaping foot.
- meaning
- French for jump, leap, or bungee plunge
- cooking cousin
- sauté literally means jumped in the pan
- ballet
- a saut is any jump off the floor
- saut a l'elastique
- how the French say bungee jumping