haut

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See also: Haut and häut

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔːt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːt

Adjective

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haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)

  1. (obsolete) Haughty.
    • 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:
      nations proud and haut
  2. (obsolete) Having high standards or quality.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
      Than to be founde in any ſuch faute.
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Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯t/ [hau̯t̪]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯t/ [au̯t̪]
  • Rhymes: -au̯t
  • Hyphenation: haut

Verb

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haut

  1. First-person singular (nik), taking informal second-person singular (hi) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

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Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Cimbrian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German hūt, from Old High German hūt, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (hide, skin). Cognate with German Haut, English hide.

Noun

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haut f (plural hòitediminutive hòitle)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

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Further reading

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  • “haut” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

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Noun

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haut

  1. nominative plural of haku

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French hault, from Old French haut, halt (high, tall, elevated), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (high, tall, elevated) and Latin altus (high, raised, profound). Akin to Old High German hōh (high, tall, elevated). More at high, haughty.

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haut (feminine haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)

  1. high
  2. tall
  3. early
    la plus haute antiquité(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    le haut Moyen-Âge(please add an English translation of this usage example)

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Adverb

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haut

  1. high

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Noun

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haut m (plural hauts)

  1. top
    Coordinate term: bas

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German

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haut

  1. inflection of hauen:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. third-person singular present
    3. plural imperative

Hunsrik

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Noun

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haut f (Wiesemann spelling)

  1. Alternative spelling of Haut
    • 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:
      praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
      bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
      (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

Latin

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haut (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of haud

References

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  • haut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • haut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • haut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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Probably from Old High German *hiudu, northern variant of hiutu, though the vocalism is irregular. Similar forms exist in many Moselle Franconian dialects alongside regular forms. Cognate with German heute.

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Adverb

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haut

  1. today
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Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French hault, haut, halt (high, tall, elevated), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (high, tall, elevated) and Latin altus (high, raised, profound).

Adjective

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haut m

  1. (Jersey) high
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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haut ? (plural hauts)

  1. (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)
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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin altus (high, tall), with the /h/ taken from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (high, tall, elevated).

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/

Adjective

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haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

  1. high (elevated)

Adverb

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haut

  1. high

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