haut

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See also: Haut and häut

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

haut

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

Usage notes

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

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)

  1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

Declension

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

  • “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 , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Noun

haut

  1. nominative plural of haku

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French

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

  1. high
  2. tall

Adverb

haut

  1. high

Noun

haut m (plural hauts)

  1. top

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References

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

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German

Pronunciation

Verb

haut

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

Hunsrik

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Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

haut f (Wiesemann spelling)

  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

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Pronunciation

Adverb

haut (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of haud

References

  • “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

Etymology

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

Adverb

haut

  1. today

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Norman

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Etymology 1

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

haut m

  1. (Jersey) high
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

haut ? (plural hauts)

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/

Adjective

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

  1. high (elevated)

Adverb

haut

  1. high

Descendants

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia