# jacht
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɑxt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: jacht
* Rhymes: -ɑxt

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch jacht, jaecht, jaget, from Old Dutch *jagot, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōþu (“hunt, hunting”). Equivalent to jagen (“to hunt”) +‎ -t (“verbal noun”). Cognate with German Jagd. The form jaecht is due to contraction and jacht to subsequent pre-cluster shortening. (Compare maagd, in which an analogous development was probably hindered by the potential homophone macht.)

#### Noun

jacht f (uncountable)
* hunt, hunting
* chase, pursuit

##### Derived terms

* drijfjacht
* heidenjacht
* heksenjacht
* hertenjacht
* jachthuis
* jachtig
* jachtklok
* jachtopziener
* jachtschip
* jachtseizoen
* jachtslot
* jachtsneeuw
* jachtsport
* jachttrofee
* jachtvliegtuig
* konijnenjacht
* koopjesjacht
* spokenjacht
* sportjacht
* talentenjacht
* trofeejacht
* walvisjacht

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: jag
* Negerhollands: jaak, jak

### Etymology 2

Probably a shortening of jachtschip, from jacht (“hunt”) or jachten (“to hurry”) + schip (“ship”). Ultimately from etymology 1.

#### Noun

jacht n (plural jachten, diminutive jachtje n)
* yacht (fast, light and now often luxurious (sailing) boat) [from early 16th c.]
    Synonyms: jachtschip, jachtschuit
    Hij kocht een nieuw jacht voor zijn zomervakantie. ― He bought a new yacht for his summer vacation.
    Ze vaarden op hun jacht naar het Caribisch gebied. ― They sailed to the Caribbean on their yacht.
    Het kleine jachtje was snel en wendbaar. ― The small yacht was fast and nimble.

##### Usage notes

* Previously jacht could also take the feminine gender in this meaning, after etymology 1; this usage is obsolete.

##### Derived terms

* adviesjacht
* jachthaven
* jachtschuit
* jachtwerf
* motorjacht
* oorlogsjacht
* plezierjacht
* speeljacht
* zeiljacht

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: jag
* → English: yacht
** → Danish: yacht
** → Faroese: jakt
** → Norwegian Bokmål: yacht
** → Norwegian Nynorsk: yacht
** → Swedish: yacht
* → German: Jacht, Yacht

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

jacht
* inflection of jachten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈjɒxt]
* Hyphenation: jacht
* Rhymes: -ɒxt

### Noun

jacht (plural jachtok)
* yacht (luxurious sailing boat)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* jacht in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Middle Low German
### Alternative forms

* jâget

### Etymology

From Old Saxon *jagōt, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōþu (“hunt, hunting”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaxt/

### Noun

jacht f
* a hunt
* a chase, a pursuit
* a fast ship (shortened from jachte/jachtschip)

#### Related terms

* jachteren
* jagen
* jachte

#### Descendants

* German Low German: Jaggt
* Plautdietsch: Jacht
* → Danish: jagt
* → Faroese: jakt
* → Kashubian: jachta
* → Latvian: jakts
* → Norwegian: jakt
* → Swedish: jakt

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch jacht, from jachtschip (“chase ship”), from jacht (“hunt”) + schip.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjaxt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -axt
* Syllabification: jacht

### Noun

jacht m inan
* yacht

#### Declension
### Further reading

* jacht in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* jacht in Polish dictionaries at PWN