# hut
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hʌt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /hʊt/
* Rhymes: -ʌt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), 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”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.

#### Noun

hut (plural huts)
* A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
    a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
** 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour”, in Characters and Essayes‎, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, page 31:And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him, Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.
** 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,
    […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.
** 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:[…] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,
** 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959, page 99:There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.
* A small wooden shed.
    a groundsman’s hut
* (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.

##### Derived terms

* bathing hut
* beach hut
* booby hut
* hut circle
* hutless
* hutlike
* hutment
* hut tax
* hutting
* Iris hut
* nipa hut
* Nissen hut
* observation hut
* palaver hut
* Quonset hut
* Romney hut
* slab hut

##### Translations

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##### See also

* cabin
* cottage
* shack
* shanty

#### Verb

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)
* (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
    to hut troops in winter quarters
** 1631, Samuel Marolois, translated by Henry Hexham, The Art of Fortification‎, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125:[…] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,
** 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons‎, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200:[…] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.
** 1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life of Washington‎, volume 2, New York: John W. Lovell, page 443:His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.
* (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
** 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,
    Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
** 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America‎, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11:He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.
* (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
** 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain‎, volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417:The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,

### Etymology 2

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

#### Interjection

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

##### Related terms

* ten-hut

### References

* ↑ A Letter to the West Country Farmers, concerning the Difficulties and Management of a Bad Harvest, Paisley, 1773, p. 33: “A hut of corn is a small clump or stack, resembling a hay quoil or rick; and consists of about forty, fifty, or more sheaves […] ”

### Anagrams

* THU, Thu, UHT

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Adverb

hut
* in vain, vainly
* empty, idle
* good, appropriate

##### Derived terms

* hutoj
** hutrrohem
** hutrrojë

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

hut m (plural huta, definite huti, definite plural hutat)
* owl
    Synonym: buf
* (figurative) fool, dolt
    Synonym: matuf

##### Related terms

* hutabi
* hutaq
* hutel
* hutesë
* hutërrohem
* hutërrojë
* hutim
* hutimthi
* hutin
* hutohem
* hutoj
* hutuar
* hutueshëm

### References

* ↑ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 205

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦʏt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hut
* Rhymes: -ʏt

### Noun

hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)
* a small wooden shed, hut
* a primitive dwelling
* a cabin on a boat
* a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on
* (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute

#### Derived terms

* blokhut
* dekhut
* hutkoffer
* kijkhut
* loofhut
* plaggenhut
* skihut
* sleurhut
* sneeuwhut
* strohut
* stuurhut
* zweethut

## Fingallian
### Etymology

From Middle English *hutte, hotte.

### Noun

hut
* cabin
** 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
    Hut,Cabbin.

## Kumeyaay
### Pronunciation

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### Noun

hut
* dog.

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German hütte (modern German Hütte).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈɣut/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈɦut/

### Noun

hut f
* booth, stand
* workhouse
* ironworks, steelworks
* warehouse
* quarry

#### Descendants

* Czech: huť

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “hut”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /huːt/

### Noun

hūt f
* hide
* (anatomy) skin

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: hūt
** Alemannic German: Hutt
    Walser: Huut
** Cimbrian: haut
** Central Franconian: Hock, Hout (Moselle Franconian), Huut (western Ripuarian), Huck (Kölsch)
    Hunsrik: Haut, haut
** German: Haut
** Luxembourgish: Haut
** Yiddish: הויט (hoyt)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxut/
* Rhymes: -ut
* Syllabification: hut
* Homophone: chód

### Noun

hut f
* genitive plural of huta

## Swedish
### Etymology

Of imitative origin. Originally a call to stop, chase away, or silence dogs. Attested since 1645. Compare Middle High German hiuzen (“to call to pursuit”), English hoot.

### Noun

hut c
* respect, good manners, (ability to feel appropriate) shame
    Vet hut!Shame on you! (idiomatic)
    lära någon veta hutteach someone some manners (Idiomatic. Sometimes of a beating, like in English.)
    Har du ingen hut i kroppen?Have you no shame in your body?

#### Related terms

* huta
* hutlös

#### See also

* nu går skam på torra land

### Interjection

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

### References

* hut in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* hut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* hut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)