haut

• haught (obsolete)
• haute (obsolete)
• hawt (eye dialect)

From Middle English haut, hawt, haute, from Old French haut, halt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːt

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.

• haute

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

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

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

haut

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

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

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.

haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

• hénnahàut

• hòitan

• “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

haut

1. nominative plural of haku

• -htua, Utah, uhat

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.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /o/

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  • (Alsace, ^[1]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)

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 ― the High Middle Ages

haut

1. high

haut m (plural hauts)

1. top

   Coordinate term: bas

• hausser

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

• huât, Utah

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haut

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

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)

• hau, haud

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhau̯t]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯t̪]

haut (not comparable)

1. alternative spelling of haud

• “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.

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.

• IPA^(key): /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊt

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haut

1. today

• hautdesdaags

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From Old French hault, haut, halt (“high, tall, elevated”), a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).

haut m

1. (Jersey) high

• haout (Guernsey)

• haute tchaîse (“highchair”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

haut ? (plural hauts)

1. (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

• haû (Jersey)
• ĥa (France)

• tchian d'mé

• halt, hault, alt, aut

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯t/

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)

1. high (elevated)

haut

1. high

• 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