haut
English
Alternative forms
- haught (obsolete)
- haute (obsolete)
- hawt (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɔːt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːt
Adjective
haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)
- (obsolete) Haughty.
- 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:
- nations proud and haut
- (obsolete) Having high standards or quality.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
Than to be founde in any ſuch faute.
- My ſcole is more ſolem and ſomwhat more haute
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
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References
- “haut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Basque
Pronunciation
Verb
haut
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hūt, from Old High German hūt, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (“hide, skin”). Cognate with German Haut, English hide.
Declension
Derived terms
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Further reading
- “haut” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
French
Etymology
Inherited 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.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- à haute voix
- à voix haute
- au plus haut point
- de haute lutte
- de haute volée
- en haut
- en haut de
- garder la tête haute
- haut allemand
- haut clergé
- haut comme trois pommes
- haut de gamme
- haut débit
- haut du panier
- haut en couleur
- haut et fort
- haut fait
- haut fourneau
- haut la main
- haut les cœurs
- haut les mains
- haut lieu
- haut placé
- haut-le-cœur
- haute couture
- haute école
- haute mer
- haute société
- haute trahison
- hautes sphères
- marée haute
- ne pas voler haut
- pendre haut et court
- péter plus haut que son cul
- prendre de haut
- tenir en haute estime
- tenir la dragée haute
- tenir le haut du pavé
- tomber de haut
- tout haut
Related terms
Further reading
- “haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
haut
- inflection of hauen:
- second-person plural present
- third-person singular present
- plural imperative
Hunsrik
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German hūt, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-. Cognate with German Haut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haʊ̯t/
Noun
haut f (Wiesemann spelling)
- skin; hide
- 2008, Ursula Wiesemann, Contribuição ao desenvolvimento de uma ortografia da língua Hunsrik falada na América do Sul, SIL Brasil: Associação Internacional de Lingüística, page 30:
- praut, kaul, haut – noiva, cavalo, pele
- bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
(note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)
- bride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [häu̯t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]
References
- “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.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
- Rhymes: -ɑʊt
Audio (file)
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Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French hault, haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).
Alternative forms
- haout (Guernsey)
Derived terms
- haute tchaîse (“highchair”)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms
- haû (Jersey)
- ĥa (France)
Synonyms
Old French
Etymology
From Latin altus (“high, tall”), with the /h/ taken from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈhau̯t/