haust

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haʊ̯st/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

haust

1. second-person singular present of hauen

Verb

haust

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

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse haust from earlier haustr (masculine), from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Compare Old English hærfest, English harvest, the Old High German Herbist; German Herbst, Danish høst and Swedish höst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhœist]

  Rhymes: -œist

Noun

haust n (genitive singular hausts, nominative plural haust)

1. autumn, fall

   Ég útskrifaðist haustið 2007.

   I graduated fall 2007.

Declension

Declension of haust (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	haust	haustið	haust	haustin
accusative	haust	haustið	haust	haustin
dative	hausti	haustinu	haustum	haustunum
genitive	hausts	haustsins	hausta	haustanna

Derived terms

• haustönn

See also

Seasons in Icelandic · árstíðir (layout · text) · category
vor (“spring”)	sumar (“summer”)	haust (“autumn”)	vetur (“winter”)

Middle Norwegian

Alternative forms

• høst

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse haust n, from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, a variant of *harbistaz m (“harvest, autumn”). Possibly related to harfr (“harrow”).

Noun

haust n or m

1. autumn

   [...] þorsdaghen nesta æftir krossmœsso vm haustit [...]

   [...] Thursday following Roodmas in autumn [...]

   [...] manadagen nest efthir Mattes messo vm haustin [...]

   [...] Monday following the Feast of Saint Matthew in autumn [...]

Usage notes

• In the Diplomatarium Norvegicum, the word is mainly neuter in Western Norway and mainly masculine in Eastern Norway.

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: haust m; (dialectal) haust n
• Norwegian Bokmål: høst m

References

• Diplomatarium Norvegicum 1
• Diplomatarium Norvegicum 2
• “haust”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

haust m (definite singular hausten, indefinite plural hauster, definite plural haustene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by høst

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haust n, from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates include Icelandic haust, Faroese heyst, Swedish höst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, German Herbst and English harvest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hœʊst/

Noun

haust m (definite singular hausten, indefinite plural haustar, definite plural haustane)

1. autumn, fall
   • 1966, Olav H. Hauge, Når hausten kjem:

     Når hausten kjem / når kulden kjem / og kveldane vert myrke, / sit eg ved elden / og hullar min song - held liv i kvida, / manar fram solminne.

     When autumn comes / when the cold comes / and the evenings grow dark / I sit by the fire / and hum my song - keeping the sorrow alive / evoking memories of the sun.

2. harvest

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

haust

1. imperative of hausta

Etymology 3

Noun

haust

1. (dialectal) alternative form of høgsete (“high seat”)

References

• “haust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From earlier haustr (masculine, like vetr (“winter”) and sumarr (“summer”)), from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, variant of *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɒust]

Noun

haust n (genitive hausts, plural haust)

1. autumn, fall

Declension

Declension of haust (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	haust	haustit	haust	haustin
accusative	haust	haustit	haust	haustin
dative	hausti	haustinu	haustum	haustunum
genitive	hausts	haustsins	hausta	haustanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: haust
• Faroese: heyst
• Norwegian Nynorsk: haust; (dialectal) (h)yst
• Old Swedish: høster
  • Swedish: höst
• Danish: høst
  • Norwegian Bokmål: høst

See also

Seasons in Old Norse · árstíðir (layout · text) · category
vár (“spring”)	sumar (“summer”)	haust (“autumn”)	vintr (“winter”)

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “haust”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.

Proto-Italic *auziō

Latin hauriō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin haustuslbor.

Polish haust

Learned borrowing from Latin haustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxawst/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awst
• Syllabification: haust

Noun

haust m inan

1. gulp, swig

Declension

Declension of haust

	singular	plural
nominative	haust	hausty
genitive	haustu	haustów
dative	haustowi	haustom
accusative	haust	hausty
instrumental	haustem	haustami
locative	hauście	haustach
vocative	hauście	hausty

Further reading

• “haust”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “haust”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)