hut
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), 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”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Noun
edithut (plural huts)
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour” in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, p. 31,[3]
- And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
- Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
- 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,[4]
- […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
- 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 99:
- There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
- A small wooden shed.
- a groundsman’s hut
- (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.[1]
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editVerb
edithut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)
- (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
- 1631, Samuel Marolois, translated by Henry Hexham, The Art of Fortification[5], Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125:
- […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
- 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons[6], London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200:
- […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.
- 1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life of Washington[7], volume 2, New York: John W. Lovell, page 443:
- His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
- (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,[8]
- Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
- 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America[9], London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11:
- He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.
- 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,[8]
- (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
- 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain[10], volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417:
- The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,
Etymology 2
editA short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
Interjection
edithut
- (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
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editAlbanian
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, “in vain”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis).[1]
Adverb
edithut
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).
Noun
edithut m (plural huta, definite huti, definite plural hutat)
Declension
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editReferences
edit- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)
- a small wooden shed, hut.
- a primitive dwelling.
- a cabin on a boat.
- a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
- (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.
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editFingallian
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Noun
edithut
- cabin
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Hut,
- Cabbin.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
Kumeyaay
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithut
- dog.
Old Czech
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle High German hütte (modern German Hütte).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithut f
Declension
editsingular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | hut | huti | huti |
genitive | huti | huťú | hutí |
dative | huti | hutma | hutem |
accusative | hut | huti | huti |
vocative | huti | huti | huti |
locative | huti | huťú | hutech |
instrumental | huťú | hutma | hutmi |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants
edit- Czech: huť
References
edit- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hut”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old High German
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithūt f
Declension
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editPolish
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edithut f
Swedish
editEtymology
editOf imitative origin. Originally a call to stop, chase away, or silence dogs. Attested since 1645. Compare Middle High German hiuzen (“to call to pursuit”), English hoot.
Noun
edithut c
- respect, good manners, (ability to feel appropriate) shame
- Vet hut!
- Shame on you! (idiomatic)
- lära någon veta hut
- teach someone some manners (Idiomatic. Sometimes of a beating, like in English.)
- Har du ingen hut i kroppen?
- Have you no shame in your body?
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editInterjection
edithut
- behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)
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- goh:Anatomy
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