haust

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haʊ̯st/
  • (file)

Verb

haust

  1. second-person singular present of hauen

Verb

haust

  1. inflection of hausen:
    1. second/third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse haust from earlier haustr (masculine), from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Compare Old English hærfest, English harvest, the Old High German Herbist; German Herbst, Danish høst and Swedish höst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /høyst/
    Rhymes: -øyst

Noun

haust n (genitive singular hausts, nominative plural haust)

  1. autumn, fall
    Ég útskrifaðist haustið 2007.
    I graduated fall 2007.

Declension

Derived terms

  • haustönn

See also

Seasons in Icelandic · árstíðir (layout · text) · category
vor (spring) sumar (summer) haust (autumn) vetur (winter)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

haust m (definite singular hausten, indefinite plural hauster, definite plural haustene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by høst

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haust n, from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates include Icelandic haust, Faroese heyst, Swedish höst, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål høst, German Herbst and English harvest.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hœʊst/

Noun

haust m (definite singular hausten, indefinite plural haustar, definite plural haustane)

  1. autumn, fall
  2. harvest

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

haust

  1. imperative of hausta

Noun

haust

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of høgsete (high seat)

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From earlier haustr (masculine, like vetr (winter) and sumarr (summer)), from Proto-Germanic *harbustaz, variant of *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [hɒust]

Noun

haust n (genitive hausts, plural haust)

  1. autumn, fall

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: haust
  • Faroese: heyst
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: haust; (dialectal) (h)yst
  • Old Swedish: høster
  • Danish: høst

References

  • haust”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin haustus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xawst/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -awst
  • Syllabification: haust

Noun

haust m inan

  1. gulp, swig

Declension

Further reading

  • haust in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • haust in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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