hut

• IPA^(key): /hʌt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, borrowed from Old French hutte, 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”), Swedish hytta (“hut”). Related to hide.

A traditional hut in Tamil Nadu

hut (plural huts)

1. a small wooden shed
2. a primitive dwelling

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)

1. (rare, archaic, transitive) To put into a hut.

   to hut troops in winter quarters

2. (rare, dated, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
   • Washington Irving

     The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

   • 1869, O. Ogle, Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers - Page 219:

     Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.

A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

hut

1. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

• THU, Thu, UHT

From Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek αὔτως (aútōs, “in vain”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐍃 (auþeis)[1].

hut

1. in vain, vainly
2. empty, idle
3. good, appropriate

• hutoj

From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).

hut m (indefinite plural hutë, definite singular huti, definite plural hutët)

1. owl

• IPA^(key): /ɦʏt/
• Rhymes: -ʏt

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hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)

1. a small wooden shed, hut.
2. a primitive dwelling.
3. a cabin on a boat.
4. a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
5. (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.

• blokhut
• skihut

From Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð

hūt f

1. hide
2. (anatomy) skin

• Middle High German: hūt
  • Alemannic German: Hutt

    Walser: Huut

  • Central Franconian: Hock, Hout

    Hunsrik: Haut, haut

  • German: Haut
  • Luxembourgish: Haut
  • Yiddish: הויט‎ (hoyt)

hut f

1. genitive plural of huta

hut

1. behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)

hut n

1. decency, good manners, politeness, reason, common sense; only in a few expressions:

   du ska veta hut

   you should behave

   jag ska lära dig veta hut

   I shall teach you some decency

   jag kräver hut och hyfs av mina barn

   I demand good manners and behaviour of my children

• Very rarely, one sees a definite form hutet

• huta
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