haut

See also: Haut and häut

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):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Adjective

haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)

1. (obsolete) Haughty.
   • 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:

     nations proud and haut

2. (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.

Related terms

• haute

References

• “haut”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hau̯t/ [hau̯t̪]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /au̯t/ [au̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -au̯t
• Hyphenation: haut

Verb

haut

1. First-person singular (nik), taking informal second-person singular (hi) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

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.

Noun

haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

Declension

Declension of haut – 2nd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	de	haut	de	hòite
accusative	an	de	haut	de	hòite
dative	anara	dar	hòite	in	hòiten

Derived terms

• hénnahàut

Related terms

• hòitan

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

Finnish

Noun

haut

1. nominative plural of haku

Anagrams

• -htua, Utah, uhat

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

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o/

  • Audio (France):

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  • (Alsace, Louisiana) IPA^(key): [ho]
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: hauts
• Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (but no aspiration)
• Homophone: os (plural only; no aspiration)

Adjective

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

1. high
2. tall
3. early

   la plus haute antiquité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   le haut Moyen-Âge ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• à haute voix
• à voix haute
• au plus haut point
• de haute lutte
• de haute volée
• garder la tête haute
• haut allemand
• haut clergé
• haut comme trois pommes
• haut débit
• haut en couleur
• haut fait
• haut fourneau
• haut lieu
• haute couture
• haute école
• haute mer
• haute société
• haute trahison
• hautes sphères
• marée haute
• tenir en haute estime
• tenir la dragée haute

 

Adverb

haut

1. high

Derived terms

• haut et fort
• haut la main
• haut les cœurs
• haut les mains
• haut placé
• haut-le-cœur
• ne pas voler haut
• pendre haut et court
• péter plus haut que son cul
• tout haut

 

Noun

haut m (plural hauts)

1. top

   Coordinate term: bas

Derived terms

• en haut
• en haut de
• haut de gamme
• haut du panier
• prendre de haut
• tenir le haut du pavé
• tomber de haut

 

Related terms

• hausser

Further reading

• “haut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• huât, Utah

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

haut

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

Hunsrik

Noun

haut f (Wiesemann spelling)

1. Alternative spelling of Haut
   • 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)

Latin

Alternative forms

• hau, haud

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hau̯t/, [häu̯t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]

Adverb

haut (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of haud

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:

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Adverb

haut

1. today

Related terms

• hautdesdaags

Norman

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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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”).

Adjective

haut m

1. (Jersey) high

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.)

Noun

haut ? (plural hauts)

1. (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

Alternative forms

• haû (Jersey)
• ĥa (France)

Synonyms

• tchian d'mé

Old French

Alternative forms

• halt, hault, alt, aut

Etymology

From Latin altus (“high, tall”), with the /h/ taken from Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯t/

Adjective

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

1. high (elevated)

Adverb

haut

1. high

Descendants

• 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)
• → Middle English: haut, hawt, haute
  • English: haut, haught, haute, hawt