haust

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [haʊ̯st]

Verb

haust

  1. Second-person singular present of hauen.
  2. Second-person singular present of hausen.
  3. Third-person singular present of hausen.
  4. Second-person plural present of hausen.
  5. Imperative plural of hausen.

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)
vor (spring) sumar (summer) haust (autumn) vetur (winter)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæʉst/

Noun

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

  1. autumn, fall
  2. harvest

Verb

haust

  1. imperative of hausta

References


Old Norse

Etymology

From earlier haustr (masculine, like vetr (winter) and sumarr (summer)), from Proto-Germanic *harƀustaz, 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

References

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