haut
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)
- (obsolete) Haughty.
- 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:
- nations proud and haut
- (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.
- My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
Related terms edit
References edit
- “haut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯t/ [hau̯t̪]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯t/ [au̯t̪]
- Rhymes: -au̯t
- Hyphenation: haut
Verb edit
haut
- 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)
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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
- 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
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /o/
- Rhymes: -o
- Homophone: hauts
- Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (but no aspiration)
- Homophone: os (plural only; no aspiration)
Adjective edit
haut (feminine haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)
- high
- tall
- early
- la plus haute antiquité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- le haut Moyen-Âge ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms edit
- à haute voix
- à voix haute
- au plus haut point
- de haute lutte
- de haute volée
- garder la tête haute
- haut allemand
- haut clergé
- haut comme trois pommes
- haut débit
- haut en couleur
- haut fait
- haut fourneau
- haut lieu
- haute couture
- haute école
- haute mer
- haute société
- haute trahison
- hautes sphères
- marée haute
- tenir en haute estime
- tenir la dragée haute
Adverb edit
haut
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Noun edit
haut m (plural hauts)
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References edit
Further reading edit
- “haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Verb edit
haut
- inflection of hauen:
Hunsrik edit
Alternative forms edit
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 (Wiesemann spelling)
- 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)
- bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
Latin edit
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [häu̯t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]
Adverb edit
haut (not comparable)
- 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
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haut
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Norman edit
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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
Alternative forms edit
- haout (Guernsey)
Derived terms edit
- haute tchaîse (“highchair”)
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)
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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
Adjective edit
haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)
- high (elevated)
Adverb edit
haut
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- Rhymes:Basque/au̯t
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- Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Cimbrian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kewH-
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms derived from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Old High German
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- Sette Comuni Cimbrian
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- cim:Skin
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- Rhymes:French/o
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- Rhymes:Luxembourgish/ɑʊt
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