hut
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, borrowed from Old French hutte, hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.


Noun[edit]
hut (plural huts)
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour” in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, p. 31,[3]
- And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
- Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
- 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,[4]
- […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart[5], New York: Anchor Books, published 1994, page 95:
- There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
- A small wooden shed.
- a groundsman’s hut
- (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.[1]
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Verb[edit]
hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)
- (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
- 1631, Henry Hexham (translator), The Art of Fortification by Samuel Marolois, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125,[6]
- […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
- 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200,[7]
- […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.
- 1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life of Washington[8], volume 2, New York: John W. Lovell, page 443:
- His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,[9]
- Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
- 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, London: for the author, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11,[10]
- He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,[9]
- (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
- 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain[11], volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417:
- The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,
Etymology 2[edit]
A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
Interjection[edit]
hut
- (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
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Albanian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, “in vain”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis).[1]
Adverb[edit]
hut
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).
Noun[edit]
hut m (indefinite plural hutë, definite singular huti, definite plural hutët)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)
- a small wooden shed, hut.
- a primitive dwelling.
- a cabin on a boat.
- a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
- (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.
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Kumeyaay[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hut
- dog.
Old High German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hūt f
Declension[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Middle High German: hūt
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hut f
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of imitative origin. Originally a call to stop, chase away, or silence dogs. Attested since 1645. Compare Middle High German hiuzen (“to call to pursuit”), English hoot.
Noun[edit]
hut c
- respect, good manners, (ability to feel appropriate) shame
- Vet hut!
- Shame on you! (idiomatic)
- lära någon veta hut
- teach someone some manners (Idiomatic. Sometimes of a beating, like in English.)
- Har du ingen hut i kroppen?
- Have you no shame in your body?
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See also[edit]
Interjection[edit]
hut
- behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)
References[edit]
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- en:Football (American)
- English three-letter words
- en:Buildings
- Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Albanian
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- Albanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian adverbs
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- sq:Birds
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏt
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- Dutch lemmas
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- nl:Rooms
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- goh:Anatomy
- Old High German i-stem nouns
- Polish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ut
- Rhymes:Polish/ut/1 syllable
- Polish terms with homophones
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- Swedish onomatopoeias
- Swedish lemmas
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