hüten

See also: Hüten

German

Etymology

From Middle High German hüeten, Old High German huoten (“to watch, take care”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan, see there for further etymology.

Cognate with Old Saxon hōdian, Old English hēdan, Dutch hoeden, English heed.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈhyːtn̩]
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  • Hyphenation: hü‧ten

Verb

hüten (weak, third-person singular present hütet, past tense hütete, past participle gehütet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to watch
  2. (of animals, transitive) to herd, to tend
  3. (reflexive, with vor + dative) to be wary, to watch out
    Man sollte sich vor voreiligen Schlüssen hüten.
    One should beware of hasty conclusions.

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Danish: hytte

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “hüten”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading
  • “hüten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “hüten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “hüten” in Duden online
  • “hüten” in OpenThesaurus.de
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