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hüten

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German hüeten, Old High German huoten (to watch, take care), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan, see there for further etymology.

Cognate with Old Saxon hōdian, Old English hēdan, Dutch hoeden, English heed.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhyːtn̩]
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  • Hyphenation: hü‧ten

Verb

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hüten (weak, third-person singular present hütet, past tense hütete, past participle gehütet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to watch
  2. (transitive, of animals) to herd, to tend
  3. (reflexive) to be wary, to watch out [with vor (+ dative) ‘of someone/something’]
    Man sollte sich vor voreiligen Schlüssen hüten.
    One should beware of hasty conclusions.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Danish: hytte

References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “hüten”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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  • hüten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • hüten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • hüten” in Duden online
  • hüten” in OpenThesaurus.de