German

Verb

haust

1. Second-person singular present of hauen.
2. Second-person singular present of hausen.
3. Third-person singular present of hausen.
4. Second-person plural present of hausen.
5. Imperative plural of hausen.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse haust from earlier haustr (masculine), from Proto-Germanic *harƀustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Compare Old English hærfest, English harvest, the Old High German Herbist; German Herbst, Danish høst and Swedish höst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /høyst/

  Rhymes: -øyst

Noun

haust n ‎(genitive singular hausts, nominative plural haust)

1. autumn, fall

   Ég úrskrifaðist haustið 2007.‎

   I graduated fall 2007.

Declension

Derived terms

• haustönn

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse haust, from Proto-Germanic *harƀustaz, *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-. Cognates include Danish høst, Norwegian Bokmål høst, Swedish höst, German Herbst and English harvest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /høʉst/

Noun

haust m ‎(definite singular hausten, indefinite plural haustar, definite plural haustane)

1. autumn, fall
2. harvest

Old Norse

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [hɒust]

Etymology

From earlier haustr (masculine, like vetr ‎(“winter”) and sumarr ‎(“summer”)), from Proto-Germanic *harƀustaz, variant of *harbistaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Noun

haust m (genitive hausts, plural haust)

1. autumn, fall

Declension

Descendants

References

• haust in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press