Hutt

Named after Sir William Hutt, chairman of the New Zealand Company.

• IPA^(key): /hʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

(the) Hutt

1. A surname.
2. A river and valley in Western Australia.
   • 1841, “Australind”, in The Monthly Chronicle, volume VII, page 402:

     The following passages describe the banks of the Hutt, to which allusion has already been made as the largest river of Western Australia yet known.

3. A river and valley in the Wellington region, North Island, New Zealand.
   • 1869, J. C. Crawford, Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, page 344:

     Having forded the Hutt, I proceeded up the course of the Akatarewa.

4. A former county of New Zealand, Hutt County was abolished in 1989.

• Lower Hutt
• Upper Hutt

From Old High German huot, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz. Cognate with German Hut, Dutch hoed, English hood.

• IPA^(key): /hut/
• Rhymes: -ut

Hutt m (plural Hitt)

1. hat

Hutt f

1. protection, care