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German
Pronunciation
Adverb
heut
- (colloquial or poetic) Alternative form of heute
Usage notes
- The form is obsolete in formal prose, but compare heutzutage.
- In the vernacular, heut is generally preferred in southern Germany and Austria, whereas in northern and central Germany it is chiefly used only when lacking sentence stress. For example, one would typically say heut Mórgen ("this morning", not afternoon or night), but héute Morgen ("this morning", not another day).
Further reading
Old French
Etymology
Frankish *hilt, from Proto-Germanic *heltą. Cognate with Old English (and Modern English) hilt.
Noun
heut oblique singular, m (oblique plural heuz or heutz, nominative singular heuz or heutz, nominative plural heut)
- hilt (handle of a sword)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (helt)