"hau" meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk

See hau in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Forms: hau! [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|nn|interjection|head=hau!}} hau!
  1. used to express fear, rejection, and so on
    Sense id: en-hau-nn-intj-vU7jEmGJ
  2. used to express optimism
    Sense id: en-hau-nn-intj-1O4IRWGL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Head templates: {{head|nn|noun|g=m}} hau m
  1. eye dialect spelling of haug Tags: alt-of, masculine, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: haug
    Sense id: en-hau-nn-noun-Fuj-sWl8 Categories (other): Norwegian Nynorsk eye dialect
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: hauet [definite, singular], hau [indefinite, plural], haua [definite, plural]
  1. (dialectal) alternative spelling of haud (“head”) Tags: alt-of, alternative, dialectal, neuter Alternative form of: haud (extra: head)
    Sense id: en-hau-nn-noun-mUH9NtCj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hau!",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "interjection",
        "head": "hau!"
      },
      "expansion": "hau!",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "used to express fear, rejection, and so on"
      ],
      "id": "en-hau-nn-intj-vU7jEmGJ"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "used to express optimism"
      ],
      "id": "en-hau-nn-intj-1O4IRWGL"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "hau m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "haug"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Norwegian Nynorsk eye dialect",
          "parents": [
            "Eye dialect",
            "Nonstandard forms",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Nonstandard terms",
            "Terms by lexical property",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye dialect spelling of haug"
      ],
      "id": "en-hau-nn-noun-Fuj-sWl8",
      "links": [
        [
          "haug",
          "haug#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "masculine",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hauet",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hau",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haua",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "head",
          "word": "haud"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But it looked as though he had taken a hard blow on the side of his head.",
          "ref": "1978, Dagmar Blix, Vanja, Trondheim: Rune, page 24:",
          "text": "Men det såg ut som han hadde fått eit hardt slag på sia av hauet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"Then you'd be a head shorter, father.\"",
          "ref": "1979, Edvard Hoem, Der storbåra bryt, Oslo: Det norske samlaget, page 18:",
          "text": "\"Då hadde du vore eit hau kortare, far.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative spelling of haud (“head”)"
      ],
      "id": "en-hau-nn-noun-mUH9NtCj",
      "links": [
        [
          "haud",
          "haud#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) alternative spelling of haud (“head”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 25 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hau!",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "interjection",
        "head": "hau!"
      },
      "expansion": "hau!",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "used to express fear, rejection, and so on"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "used to express optimism"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 25 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nn",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "hau m",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "haug"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk eye dialect"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "eye dialect spelling of haug"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "haug",
          "haug#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "masculine",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 25 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hauet",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hau",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "haua",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
  "lang_code": "nn",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "head",
          "word": "haud"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Norwegian Nynorsk dialectal terms",
        "Norwegian Nynorsk terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But it looked as though he had taken a hard blow on the side of his head.",
          "ref": "1978, Dagmar Blix, Vanja, Trondheim: Rune, page 24:",
          "text": "Men det såg ut som han hadde fått eit hardt slag på sia av hauet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "\"Then you'd be a head shorter, father.\"",
          "ref": "1979, Edvard Hoem, Der storbåra bryt, Oslo: Det norske samlaget, page 18:",
          "text": "\"Då hadde du vore eit hau kortare, far.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative spelling of haud (“head”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "haud",
          "haud#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal) alternative spelling of haud (“head”)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "dialectal",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hau"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hau meaning in Norwegian Nynorsk (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Norwegian Nynorsk dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.