different between hut vs kut

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English *hutte, hotte, borrowed from Old French hutte, hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudj?, *hudj? (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hytta (“hut”). Related to hide.

Noun

hut (plural huts)

1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
   • 1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour” in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, p. 31,^[3]

     And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,

     Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.

   • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109,^[4]

     […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the palaces of eastern monarchs.

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 20, p. 341,^[5]

     […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, New York: Anchor Books, 1994, Chapter 11, p. 95,^[6]

     There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.

2. A small wooden shed.

3. (agriculture, obsolete) A small stack of grain.

Derived terms

See also

• cabin
• cottage
• shack
• shanty

Translations

Verb

hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)

1. (archaic, transitive) To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
   • 1631, Henry Hexham (translator), The Art of Fortification by Samuel Marolois, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125,^[7]

     […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200,^[8]

     […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.

   • 1850, Washington Irving, The Life of Washington, New York: John W. Lovell, Volume 2, Chapter 56, p. 443,^[9]

     His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.

2. (archaic, intransitive) To take shelter in a hut.
   • 1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219,^[10]

     Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.

   • 1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, London: for the author, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11,^[11]

     He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.

3. (agriculture, obsolete, transitive) To stack (sheaves of grain).
   • 1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, Edinburgh, Volume 2, p. 417,^[12]

     The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,

Etymology 2

A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.

Interjection

hut

1. (American football) Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.

References

Anagrams

• THU, Thu, UHT

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *hut, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewt- (“downwards”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (aút?s, “in vain”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (auþeis).

Adverb

hut

1. in vain, vainly
2. empty, idle
3. good, appropriate

Derived terms

• hutoj
  • hutrrohem
  • hutrrojë

Etymology 2

From the adverb or an onomatopoeia (compare English hoot).

Noun

hut m (indefinite plural hutë, definite singular huti, definite plural hutët)

1. owl

Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hutte, from Middle High German hütte, from Old High German hutta, from Proto-Germanic *hudj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hut
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

hut f (plural hutten, diminutive hutje n)

1. a small wooden shed, hut.
2. a primitive dwelling.
3. a cabin on a boat.
4. a usually simple recreational lodging, pub, or suchlike for scouting, mountaineering, skiing, and so on.
5. (archaic or toponym) a roadhouse, inn or pub, sometimes primitive and/or of ill repute.

Derived terms

• blokhut
• dekhut
• hutkoffer
• plaggenhut
• skihut
• sleurhut
• sneeuwhut
• strohut
• stuurhut
• zweethut

Kumeyaay

Pronunciation

Noun

hut

1. dog.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *h?di, from Proto-Germanic *h?diz, whence also Old English hyd, Old Norse húð.

Noun

h?t f

1. hide
2. (anatomy) skin

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: h?t
  • Alemannic German: Hutt

    Walser: Huut

  • Central Franconian: Hock, Hout

    Hunsrik: Haut, haut

  • German: Haut
  • Luxembourgish: Haut
  • Yiddish: ????? (hoyt)

Polish

Noun

hut f

1. genitive plural of huta

Swedish

Interjection

hut

1. behave! (same as: du ska veta hut! = vet hut! = hut!)

Noun

hut n

1. decency, good manners, politeness, reason, common sense; only in a few expressions:

   du ska veta hut

   you should behave

   jag ska lära dig veta hut

   I shall teach you some decency

   jag kräver hut och hyfs av mina barn

   I demand good manners and behaviour of my children

Usage notes

• Very rarely, one sees a definite form hutet

Related terms

• huta
• hutlös

See also

• nu går skam på torra land

English

Alternative forms

• goot
• gut

Etymology

From Korean ? (gut), romanized as kut under the McCune-Reischauer romanization system.

Noun

kut

1. A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.

Albanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin cubitum. Compare Aromanian cot.

Noun

kut m

1. yardstick

See also

• jard

Cahuilla

Noun

kút

1. fire

Dutch

Alternative forms

• cutte (obsolete)
• kutte (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Hyphenation: kut
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Derivation from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“abdomen, belly”) (compare Old Norse kviðr (“abdomen, belly”) and Gothic ???????????????????? (qiþus, “womb”) is unlikely. Probably kut is cognate with kuit (“spawn”) and kont (“ass”). Also Old Dutch quintuc (“genitals of a female dog”) [8th century] might be related.

Noun

kut f (plural kutten, diminutive kutje n)

1. (vulgar) vulva, especially the vagina; cunt, pussy
2. (vulgar, chiefly Brabantian, derogatory) a strongly disliked person; cunt, fuck

Derived terms

• flapkut
• gratenkut
• kut-
• kutlul
• kut met peren
• kutzwager
• sufkut

Interjection

kut

1. (vulgar, Netherlands) fuck!

Adjective

kut (comparative kutter, superlative kutst)

1. (vulgar, Netherlands) crap, not entertaining

   Synonym: ruk

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kut

1. first-person singular present indicative of kutten
2. imperative of kutten

References

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English good.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kut/, [?kut?]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: kut

Adjective

kut

1. (Finglish) Good.

References

• Hellstrom, Robert W. (1976) , “Finglish”, in American Speech, volume 51, issue 1/2, page 90

Norman

Alternative forms

• coute (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French coute, code (“elbow”), from Latin cubitum, from cub?, cub?re (“lie down, recline”).

Noun

kut m (plural kuts)

1. (Sark, anatomy) elbow

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *k?t?. Compare Compare Czech kout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kû?t/

Noun

k?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. corner
2. angle

Declension

Related terms

• kutak
• pravi kut

Synonyms

• ugao

References

• “kut” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

kut c

1. puppy; a young seal, chiefly of grey seal

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic ????????????? (q?¹ut¹), from Proto-Turkic *Kut (“luck, good fortune”).

Noun

kut (definite accusative kutu, plural kutlar)

1. luck

Derived terms

• kutlu

References

Tübatulabal

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kut (“firewood”).

Noun

kut

1. fire

References

• Voegelin, C. F. (July 1958) , “Working dictionary of Tübatulabal”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 24, issue 3, JSTOR 1263500, pages 221–228

Veps

Etymology

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

Adverb

kut

1. how, in what way (interrogative)
2. how, the way that (relative)

Derived terms

• kut-ni
• kut-se
• koje-kut
• nikut

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika