jacht

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

jacht

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑxt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: jacht
• Rhymes: -ɑxt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch jacht, jaecht, jaget, from Old Dutch *jagot, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōþu (“hunt, hunting”). Cognate with German Jagd. The form jaecht is due to contraction and jacht to subsequent pre-cluster shortening. (Compare maagd, in which an analogous development was probably hindered by the potential homophone macht.)

Noun

jacht f (uncountable)

1. hunt, hunting
2. chase, pursuit

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: jag
• Negerhollands: jaak, jak

Etymology 2

Probably a shortening of jachtschip, from jacht (“hunt”) or jachten (“to hurry”) + schip (“ship”). Ultimately from etymology 1.

Noun

jacht n (plural jachten, diminutive jachtje n)

1. yacht (fast, light and now often luxurious (sailing) boat)

   Synonyms: jachtschip, jachtschuit

   Hij kocht een nieuw jacht voor zijn zomervakantie. ― He bought a new yacht for his summer vacation.

   Ze vaarden op hun jacht naar het Caribisch gebied. ― They sailed to the Caribbean on their yacht.

   Het kleine jachtje was snel en wendbaar. ― The small yacht was fast and nimble.

Usage notes

• Previously jacht could also take the feminine gender in this meaning, after etymology 1; this usage is obsolete.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: jag
• → English: yacht
  • → Danish: yacht
  • → Faroese: jakt
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: yacht
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: yacht
  • → Swedish: yacht
• → German: Jacht, Yacht

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

jacht

1. inflection of jachten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: jacht
• Rhymes: -ɒxt

Noun

jacht (plural jachtok)

1. yacht (luxurious sailing boat)

Declension

Further reading

• jacht in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• jâget

Etymology

From Old Saxon *jagōt, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōþu (“hunt, hunting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaxt/

Noun

jacht f

1. a hunt
2. a chase, a pursuit
3. a fast ship (shortened from jachte/jachtschip)

Related terms

• jachteren
• jagen
• jachte

Descendants

• German Low German: Jaggt
• Plautdietsch: Jacht
• → Danish: jagt
• → Faroese: jakt
• → Kashubian: jachta
• → Latvian: jakts
• → Norwegian: jakt
• → Swedish: jakt

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

jacht

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch jacht, from jachtschip (“chase ship”), from jacht (“hunt”) + schip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaxt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -axt
• Syllabification: jacht

Noun

jacht m inan

1. yacht

Declension

Further reading

• jacht in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jacht in Polish dictionaries at PWN