haut

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

haut

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

Usage notes[edit]

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

Cimbrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

Declension[edit]

Declension of haut – 2nd declension
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative an de haut de hòite
accusative an de haut de hòite
dative anara dar hòite in hòiten

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Further reading[edit]

  • “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[edit]

Noun[edit]

haut

  1. nominative plural of haku

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. high
  2. tall

Adverb[edit]

haut

  1. high

Noun[edit]

haut m (plural hauts)

  1. top

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References[edit]

  1. ^ http://accentsdefrance.free.fr/alsace/alsacephonetique.html

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German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

haut

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

Hunsrik[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-. Cognate with German Haut.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

haut f

  1. skin; hide
    • 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[edit]

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Adverb[edit]

haut (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of haud

References[edit]

  • “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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

haut

  1. today

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Norman[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

haut m

  1. (Jersey) high
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Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

haut ? (plural hauts)

  1. (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)
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Old French[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/

Adjective[edit]

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

  1. high (elevated)

Adverb[edit]

haut

  1. high

Descendants[edit]

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