hut

See also: Hut, hút, hűt, hüt, and huť

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʌt/
  • (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), Swedish hytta (hut). Related to hide.

A traditional hut in Tamil Nadu

Noun

hut (plural huts)

  1. a small wooden shed
  2. a primitive dwelling
Translations
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Verb

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)

  1. (rare, archaic, transitive) To put into a hut.
    to hut troops in winter quarters
  2. (rare, dated, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
    • Washington Irving
      The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.
    • 1869, O. Ogle, Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers - Page 219:
      Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.

Etymology 2

A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

Interjection

hut

  1. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

Anagrams


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

  1. in vain, vainly
  2. empty, idle
  3. good, appropriate

Etymology 2

From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).

Noun

hut m (indefinite plural hutë, definite singular huti, definite plural hutët)

  1. owl

References

  1. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), p.205

Dutch

A Dutch plaggenhut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦʏt/
  • Rhymes: -ʏt
  • (file)

Noun

hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)

  1. a small wooden shed, hut.
  2. a primitive dwelling.
  3. a cabin on a boat.
  4. a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
  5. (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.

Derived terms


Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð

Noun

hūt f

  1. hide
  2. (anatomy) skin

Declension

Descendants


Polish

Noun

hut f

  1. genitive plural of huta

Swedish

Interjection

hut

  1. behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)

Noun

hut n

  1. 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

Usage notes

  • Very rarely, one sees a definite form hutet

See also

  • nu går skam på torra land
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