haut

From French haut (“high”).

haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)

1. (obsolete) Haughty.
   • Milton

     nations proud and haut

• Auth, Auth., UTAH, Utah, auth, auth.

From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew-. Cognate with German Haut.

haut f

1. skin

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

haut

1. Nominative plural form of haku.

• -htua, uhat

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.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ho/

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, hauts, ho, o, ô, oh, os

haut (feminine singular haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)

1. high
2. tall

haut

1. high

haut m (plural hauts)

1. top

• The aspirated, or Germanic, h precludes elision: la haute cuisine.

• en haut de
• en haut
• haut-le-cœur

• hausser

• huât

• “haut” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

haut

1. Second-person plural present of hauen.
2. Third-person singular present of hauen.
3. Imperative plural of hauen.

• Haut

From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew-. Cognate with German Haut.

• IPA^(key): /haʊ̯t/

haut

1. 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)

• hau, haud

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hau̯t/

haut (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of haud

• 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

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.

• IPA^(key): /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊt

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haut

1. today

• hautdesdaags

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From Old French hault, haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).

haut m

1. (Jersey) high

• haout (Guernsey)

• haute tchaîse (“highchair”)

haut ? (plural hauts)

1. (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

• haû (Jersey)
• ĥa (France)

• tchian d'mé

• halt, hault, alt, aut

From a conflation of Latin altus (“high, tall”) and Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).

• Early Old French: IPA^(key): /haɫt/
• Old French: IPA^(key): /hawt/
• Late Old French: IPA^(key): /aw(t)/

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

1. high (elevated)

haut

1. high

• 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)