# haut
## English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɔːt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːt

### Adjective

haut (comparative more haut, superlative most haut)
* (obsolete) Haughty.
** 1648, John Milton, Psalm LXXX:nations proud and haut
* (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.

#### Related terms

* haute

### References

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

### Anagrams

* auth, Auth., Auth, UTAH, Utah, HATU, auth.

## Basque
### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

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

#### Usage notes

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

## Cimbrian
### Etymology

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.

### Noun

haut f (plural hòite, diminutive hòitle)
* (Luserna, Sette Comuni) skin

#### Derived terms

* hénnahàut

#### Related terms

* hòitan

### Further reading

* “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

## Finnish
### Noun

haut
* nominative plural of haku

### Anagrams

* -htua, Utah, uhat

## French
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o/
** Audio (France):(file)
** Audio:(file)
** (Alsace,Louisiana) IPA: [ho]
* Rhymes: -o
* Homophone: hauts
* Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (but no aspiration)
* Homophone: os (plural only; no aspiration)

### Adjective

haut (feminine haute, masculine plural hauts, feminine plural hautes)
* high
* tall
* early
    la plus haute antiquité ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    le haut Moyen-Âge ― the High Middle Ages

#### Derived terms

* à haute voix
* à voix haute
* au plus haut point
* de haute lutte
* de haute volée
* garder la tête haute
* haut allemand
* haut clergé
* haut comme trois pommes
* haut débit
* haut en couleur
* haut fait
* haut fourneau
* haut lieu
* haute couture
* haute école
* haute mer
* haute société
* haute trahison
* hautes sphères
* marée haute
* tenir en haute estime
* tenir la dragée haute

### Adverb

haut
* high

#### Derived terms

* haut et fort
* haut la main
* haut les cœurs
* haut les mains
* haut placé
* haut-le-cœur
* ne pas voler haut
* pendre haut et court
* péter plus haut que son cul
* tout haut

### Noun

haut m (plural hauts)
* top
    Coordinate term: bas

#### Derived terms

* en haut
* en haut de
* haut de gamme
* haut du panier
* prendre de haut
* tenir le haut du pavé
* tomber de haut

### Related terms

* hausser

### References

* ↑ http://accentsdefrance.free.fr/alsace/alsacephonetique.html

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* huât, Utah

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

haut
* inflection of hauen:
** second-person plural present
** third-person singular present
** plural imperative

## Hunsrik
### Noun

haut f (Wiesemann spelling)
* 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, pelebride, horse, skin – bride, horse, skin (note: the words right of the hyphen are in Portuguese)

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* hau, haud

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈhau̯t/, [ˈhäu̯t̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈau̯t/, [ˈäu̯t̪]

### Adverb

haut (not comparable)
* Alternative spelling of haud

### References

* “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.

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hau̯t/, [hɑʊ̯t]
* Rhymes: -ɑʊt
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

haut
* today

#### Related terms

* hautdesdaags

## Norman
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

haut m
* (Jersey) high

##### Alternative forms

* haout (Guernsey)

##### Derived terms

* haute tchaîse (“highchair”)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

haut ? (plural hauts)
* (Jersey) school shark (Galeorhinus galeus)

##### Alternative forms

* haû (Jersey)
* ĥa (France)

##### Synonyms

* tchian d'mé

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* halt, hault, alt, aut

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈhau̯t/

### Adjective

haut m (oblique and nominative feminine singular haute)
* high (elevated)

### Adverb

haut
* high

#### Descendants

* 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