hut
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hʌt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology 1
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, borrowed from Old French hutte, hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”).
Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
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Noun
hut (plural huts)
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour” in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, p. 31,
- And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
- Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
- 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,
- […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935, page 341:
- […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Anchor Books, 1994, Chapter 11, p. 95,
- There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
- A small wooden shed.
- a groundsman’s hut
- (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.[1]
Derived terms
- bathing hut
- beach hut
- booby hut
- hutlike
- hutment
- hut tax
- hutting
- nipa hut
- Nissen hut
- observation hut
- palaver hut
- Quonset hut
Translations
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See also
- cabin
- cottage
- shack
- shanty
Verb
hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)
- (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
- 1631, Henry Hexham (translator), The Art of Fortification by Samuel Marolois, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125,
- […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
- 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200,
- […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.
- 1850, Washington Irving, The Life of Washington, New York: John W. Lovell, Volume 2, Chapter 56, p. 443,
- His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,
- Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
- 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, London: for the author, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11,
- He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,
- (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
- 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, Edinburgh, Volume 2, p. 417,
- The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,
- 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, Edinburgh, Volume 2, p. 417,
Etymology 2
A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
Interjection
hut
- (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Related terms
- ten-hut
References
- A Letter to the West Country Farmers, concerning the Difficulties and Management of a Bad Harvest, Paisley, 1773, p. 33: “A hut of corn is a small clump or stack, resembling a hay quoil or rick; and consists of about forty, fifty, or more sheaves […] ”
Anagrams
- THU, Thu, UHT
Albanian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, “in vain”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis).[1]
Adverb
hut
- in vain, vainly
- empty, idle
- good, appropriate
Derived terms
- hutoj
- hutrrohem
- hutrrojë
Etymology 2
From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).
Noun
hut m (indefinite plural hutë, definite singular huti, definite plural hutët)
- owl
Declension
indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) | definite forms (trajta të shquara) | ||||
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singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | ||
nominative (emërore) | (një) hut | (disa) hutë | huti | hutët | |
accusative (kallëzore) | (një) hut | (disa) hutë | hutin | hutët | |
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) | (një) huti | (disa) hutëve | hutit | hutëvet | |
dative (dhanore) | (një) huti | (disa) hutëve | hutit | hutëvet | |
ablative (rrjedhore) (prej) | (një) huti | (disa) hutësh | hutit | hutëvet |
References
- Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205
Dutch
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦʏt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: hut
- Rhymes: -ʏt
Noun
hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)
- a small wooden shed, hut.
- a primitive dwelling.
- a cabin on a boat.
- a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
- (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.
Derived terms
- blokhut
- dekhut
- hutkoffer
- plaggenhut
- skihut
- sleurhut
- sneeuwhut
- strohut
- stuurhut
- zweethut
Kumeyaay
Noun
hut
- dog.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.
Noun
hūt f
- hide
- (anatomy) skin
Declension
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | hūt | hūti |
accusative | hūt | hūti |
genitive | hūti | hūto |
dative | hūti | hūtim, hūten |
Descendants
- Middle High German: hūt
- Alemannic German: Hutt
- Walser: Huut
- Cimbrian: haut
- Central Franconian: Hock, Hout; Huut; Huck
- Hunsrik: Haut, haut
- German: Haut
- Luxembourgish: Haut
- Yiddish: הויט (hoyt)
- Alemannic German: Hutt
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xut/
- Rhymes: -ut
- Syllabification: hut
Noun
hut f
- genitive plural of huta
Swedish
Etymology
Of imitative origin, comparable to Middle High German hiuzen (“to call to pursuit”), English hoot.
Interjection
hut
- behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)
Noun
hut n
- decency, good manners, politeness, reason, common sense; only in a few expressions:
- du ska veta hut
- you should behave
- jag ska lära dig veta hut
- I shall teach you some decency
- jag kräver hut och hyfs av mina barn
- I demand good manners and behaviour of my children
- du ska veta hut
Usage notes
- Very rarely, one sees a definite form hutet
Related terms
- huta
- hutlös
See also
- nu går skam på torra land