"Haut" meaning in German

See Haut in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /haʊt/ Audio: De-Haut.ogg , De-Haut2.ogg
Rhymes: -aʊ̯t Etymology: From Middle High German hūt, from Old High German hūt, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|hūt}} Middle High German hūt, {{inh|de|goh|hūt}} Old High German hūt, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*hūdi}} Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, {{inh|de|gem-pro|*hūdiz}} Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, {{der|de|ine-pro|*(s)kewH-}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- Head templates: {{de-noun|f,^e|dim=^chen,^lein}} Haut f (genitive Haut, plural Häute, diminutive Häutchen n or Häutlein n) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f,^e}} Forms: Haut [genitive], Häute [plural], Häutchen [diminutive, neuter], Häutlein [diminutive, neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], Haut [nominative, singular], Häute [definite, nominative, plural], Haut [genitive, singular], Häute [definite, genitive, plural], Haut [dative, singular], Häuten [dative, definite, plural], Haut [accusative, singular], Häute [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Haut-de-noun-nEYMWUZV
  2. (by extension, metonymic) a creature, especially a person Tags: broadly, feminine, metonymically
    Sense id: en-Haut-de-noun-7WAEkg6F Categories (other): German metonyms
  3. skin (membrane found on the surface of an object, like a sausage) Tags: feminine Synonyms: Fell, Pelz Related terms: Haar
    Sense id: en-Haut-de-noun-syc1oD-S Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 14 11 76 Derived forms: Apfelsinenhaut, auf der faulen Haut liegen, dünnhäutig, Gänsehaut, Hautausschlag, häuten, Hautfarbe, Hautflügler, Hautrötung, Kopfhaut, Schrumpelhaut

Inflected forms

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    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "haŭto"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "goh",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old High German hūt",
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    },
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      "args": {
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      },
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hūdiz",
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)kewH-"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle High German hūt, from Old High German hūt, from Proto-West Germanic *hūdi, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häutchen",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häutlein",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häuten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "f,^e",
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      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
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      "name": "de-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "About the skin? You're interested in physiology?",
          "roman": "\"Von der Haut? Interessieren Sie sich für Physiologie?\"",
          "text": "1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (Berlin: S. Fischer, 1929), p. 346",
          "translation": "About the skin? You're interested in physiology?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant"
      ],
      "id": "en-Haut-de-noun-nEYMWUZV",
      "links": [
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          "skin",
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        ],
        [
          "hide",
          "hide"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "name": "German metonyms",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
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            ]
          ],
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              12
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          ],
          "english": "brave person",
          "text": "brave Haut",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "a creature, especially a person"
      ],
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        [
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        ]
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      ],
      "tags": [
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        "metonymically"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Apfelsinenhaut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "auf der faulen Haut liegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "dünnhäutig"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Gänsehaut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Hautausschlag"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "häuten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Hautfarbe"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Hautflügler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Hautrötung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Kopfhaut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Schrumpelhaut"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "skin (membrane found on the surface of an object, like a sausage)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Haut-de-noun-syc1oD-S",
      "links": [
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "membrane",
          "membrane#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Haar"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Fell"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "26 0 74",
          "word": "Pelz"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/haʊt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Haut.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fa/De-Haut.ogg/De-Haut.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/De-Haut.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Haut2.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7a/De-Haut2.ogg/De-Haut2.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/De-Haut2.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ̯t"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Haut"
}
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    "German feminine nouns",
    "German lemmas",
    "German nouns",
    "German terms derived from Middle High German",
    "German terms derived from Old High German",
    "German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "German terms inherited from Middle High German",
    "German terms inherited from Old High German",
    "German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pennsylvania German entries with incorrect language header",
    "Pennsylvania German feminine nouns",
    "Pennsylvania German lemmas",
    "Pennsylvania German nouns",
    "Pennsylvania German terms derived from Middle High German",
    "Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German",
    "Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Middle High German",
    "Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German",
    "Rhymes:German/aʊ̯t",
    "Rhymes:German/aʊ̯t/1 syllable"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "Apfelsinenhaut"
    },
    {
      "word": "auf der faulen Haut liegen"
    },
    {
      "word": "dünnhäutig"
    },
    {
      "word": "Gänsehaut"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hautausschlag"
    },
    {
      "word": "häuten"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hautfarbe"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hautflügler"
    },
    {
      "word": "Hautrötung"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kopfhaut"
    },
    {
      "word": "Schrumpelhaut"
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "lang_code": "eo",
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      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
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  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häutchen",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häutlein",
      "tags": [
        "diminutive",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "de-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häuten",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Haut",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Häute",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Haar"
    }
  ],
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "About the skin? You're interested in physiology?",
          "roman": "\"Von der Haut? Interessieren Sie sich für Physiologie?\"",
          "text": "1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (Berlin: S. Fischer, 1929), p. 346",
          "translation": "About the skin? You're interested in physiology?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant"
      ],
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        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "hide",
          "hide"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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          "english": "brave person",
          "text": "brave Haut",
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        }
      ],
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        "a creature, especially a person"
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      ],
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        "feminine",
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    },
    {
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        "skin (membrane found on the surface of an object, like a sausage)"
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          "membrane",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊ̯t"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Fell"
    },
    {
      "word": "Pelz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Haut"
}

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