haut
English
Alternative forms
- haught (obsolete)
- haute (obsolete)
- hawt (eye dialect)
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)
- (obsolete) Haughty.
- 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX
- nations proud and haut
- 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX
- (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
- haute
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for haut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Auth, Auth., UTAH, Utah, auth, auth.
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Southern) /au̯t/, [au̯t̪]
- IPA(key): (Northern) /hau̯t/, [ɦau̯t̪]
Verb
haut
- 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)
- (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin
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 |
Derived terms
- hénnahàut
Related terms
- hòitan
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 [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Finnish
Noun
haut
- nominative plural of haku
Anagrams
- -htua, Utah, uhat
French
Etymology
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
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /o/
Audio (France) (file) Audio (file) - (Alsace[1], Louisiana) IPA(key): [ho]
- Rhymes: -o
- Homophone: hauts
- Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (but no aspiration)
- Homophone: os (plural only; no aspiration)
Adjective
haut (feminine haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)
- high
- tall
Adverb
haut
- high
Noun
haut m (plural hauts)
- top
Derived terms
- à haute voix
- au plus haut point
- à voix haute
- de haute lutte
- de haute volée
- en haut
- en haut de
- garder la tête haute
- haut allemand
- haut clergé
- haut comme trois pommes
- haut débit
- haut de gamme
- haut du panier
- haute couture
- haute école
- haute mer
- haut en couleur
- haute société
- hautes sphères
- haut et fort
- haute trahison
- haut fait
- haut fourneau
- haut la main
- haut-le-cœur
- haut les cœurs
- haut les mains
- haut lieu
- haut placé
- marée haute
- ne pas voler haut
- pendre haut et court
- péter plus haut que son cul
- prendre de haut
- tenir en haute estime
- tenir la dragée haute
- tenir le haut du pavé
- tomber de haut
- tout haut
Related terms
- hausser
References
- http://accentsdefrance.free.fr/alsace/alsacephonetique.html
Further reading
- “haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- huât
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
haut
- inflection of hauen:
- second-person plural present
- third-person singular present
- plural imperative
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
- Haut
Etymology
From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-. Cognate with German Haut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haʊ̯t/
Noun
haut f
- skin; hide
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
- praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
- bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
- (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)
- praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, Associação Internacional de Lingüística – SIL Brasil, page 30:
Latin
Alternative forms
- hau, haud
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [häu̯t̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]
Adverb
haut (not comparable)
- 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
- IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
- Rhymes: -ɑʊt
Audio (file)
Adverb
haut
- today
Related terms
- hautdesdaags
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
- (Jersey) high
Alternative forms
- haout (Guernsey)
Derived terms
- haute tchaîse (“highchair”)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
haut ? (plural hauts)
- (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)
Alternative forms
- haû (Jersey)
- ĥa (France)
Synonyms
- tchian d'mé
Old French
Alternative forms
- halt, hault, alt, aut
Etymology
From a conflation of Latin altus (“high, tall”) and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/
Adjective
haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)
- high (elevated)
Adverb
haut
- high
Descendants
- Middle French: hault, haut, ault
- French: haut
- Gallo: haut
- Norman: ĥa (Cotentinais), haut (Guernesiais), haû (Jersiais)
- Picard: haût, ôt (Athois)
- Walloon: waut (Charleroi), ôt, wôt (Forrières), hôt (Liégeois)
- → Middle English: haut, hawt, haute
- English: haut, haught, haute, hawt