hutte French · revision 15750

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=12th century, glosses of Gershom of Metz, hute|origins=goh hutta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /yt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hutte''' ''f'' (plural huttes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|goh|hutta|t=hut, cabin]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Académie 9)^(FEW|16, 276b) the source of a family of Germanic words such as [[en|hut]]^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary); Rey thinks it probably named temporary military buildings, and traces it to the root of English [[m|en|hide]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) Bloch and Wartburg hesitate between Old High German and [[gmh|hütte]];^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) the Grand Robert and the Petit Robert take it from Middle High German, the GLLF from a [[frk|*hutta]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989) Littré links it with Gothic “hethjo” “chamber”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ The word is rare in Old French texts, but place names such as La Hutte and Les Huttes across northern France and in Belgium (from 1272) show that it was long a country word before it entered the literary language.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the 12th-century glosses of Gershom of Metz, ''hute'' names a kind of thatched structure that let river water run off into the pastures.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The modern sense, a rough shelter of wood, branches, earth or straw, is first recorded in 1358; in Old French literature such buildings were called ''loge'' or ''feuillée''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In hunting a ''hutte'' is a fixed or portable hide by the water from which wildfowl are shot (1574), whence ''huttier'' (1874).^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) The verb ''se hutter'' “to make a hut, lodge” (1594–1635) has gone out of use.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 12th century – ''Hute'', a structure in pastures (Gershom of Metz).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1272 – ''Huttes'' as a place name in Belgium.^(TLFi)

+ * 1358 – A rough shelter or cabin.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1574 – A hunter's hide.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1694 – First recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1874 – ''Huttier''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|hut]], a rough shelter of wood, earth or straw: ''hutte de berger''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(hunting)'' A hide by the water for shooting wildfowl.^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cahute]]

+ * [[cabane]]

+ * [[en|hut]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}