huit

huit

1. A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
   • 1978, Neville Peat, Snow Dogs, page 18:

     'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'

   • 1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92:

     I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]

• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /ˈwit/

huit m or f

1. (Valencia) alternative form of vuit (“eight”)

huit m (plural huits)

1. (Valencia) alternative form of vuit (“eight”)

Possibly from the same root as huitoa, huitaista, referring to fast movement. Compare also huut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhui̯t/, [ˈhui̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -uit
• Syllabification^(key): huit
• Hyphenation^(key): huit

huit

1. an intensifier used in some idioms

   Huit hiiteen siitä!

   Out of my sight!

   Se on jossain huit helvetissä.

   It is somewhere in the back of beyond.

• huut

• huitsin

• “huit”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• huict (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle French huyct, from Old French uit, from Latin octō, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

The h- was added in Middle French to avoid confusion with vit when the letters u and v were not distinguished; compare the same in huile, etc. That huit does not undergo initial liaison is in fact due to a general rule for numerals (compare un, onze), not to a historically aspirated onset.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥit/ (independent and before vowel or mute h)

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  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɥɪt]
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [wit]
• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/ (before modified word in a consonant or aspirated h)
• Rhymes: -it

huit (invariable)

1. eight

• huit cents
• huitième
• nœud en huit

• Garifuna: widü
• Louisiana Creole: wit

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

From Old French uit, from Latin octō, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

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huit

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) eight

• dgiêx-huit (“eighteen”)

huit m (plural huits)

1. (Jersey) figure-of-eight knot