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Webster 1828 Edition


Haust

HAUST

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Noun.
A dry cough.

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haust

haust

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

Seasons in Icelandic · árstíðir (layout · text)
vor (spring) sumar (summer) haust (autumn) vetur (winter)

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