huit

English

Interjection

huit

1. A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
   • 1978, Neville Peat, Snow Dogs, page 18:

     'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'

   • 1996, Kevin Walton, Rick Atkinson, Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic, page 92:

     I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]

Catalan

Catalan numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal (Valencian): huit     Cardinal (Central): vuit     Ordinal (Valencian): huité     Ordinal (Central): vuitè     Ordinal (Latinate): octau     Ordinal abbreviation (Valencian): 8é     Ordinal abbreviation (Central): 8è     Ordinal abbreviation (Latinate): 8u     Multiplier: òctuple
Catalan Wikipedia article on 8

Pronunciation

• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /ˈwit/

Numeral

huit m or f

1. (Valencia) alternative form of vuit (“eight”)

Noun

huit m (plural huits)

1. (Valencia) alternative form of vuit (“eight”)

Finnish

Etymology

Possibly from the same root as huitoa, huitaista, referring to fast movement. Compare also huut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhui̯t/, [ˈhui̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -uit
• Syllabification^(key): huit
• Hyphenation^(key): huit

Adverb

huit

1. an intensifier used in some idioms

   Huit hiiteen siitä!

   Out of my sight!

   Se on jossain huit helvetissä.

   It is somewhere in the back of beyond.

Synonyms

• huut

See also

• huitsin

Further reading

• “huit”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

French

French numbers ^(edit)

	80[a], [b], [c]
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Cardinal: huit     Ordinal: huitième     Ordinal abbreviation: 8e, (now nonstandard) 8ème     Multiplier: octuple
French Wikipedia article on 8

Alternative forms

• huict (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French huyct, from Old French uit, from Latin octō, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

The h- was added in Middle French to avoid confusion with vit when the letters u and v were not distinguished; compare the same in huile, etc. That huit does not undergo initial liaison is in fact due to a general rule for numerals (compare un, onze), not to a historically aspirated onset.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥit/ (independent and before vowel or mute h)

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  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɥɪt]
  • (Belgium) IPA^(key): [wit]
• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/

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  (before modified word in a consonant or aspirated h)
• Rhymes: -it

Numeral

huit (invariable)

1. eight

Derived terms

• huit cents
• huitième
• nœud en huit

Descendants

• Garifuna: widü
• Louisiana Creole: wit

See also

Playing cards in French · cartes à jouer (layout · text)
as	deux	trois	quatre	cinq	six	sept
huit	neuf	dix	valet	dame	roi	joker

Further reading

• “huit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Norman cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : huit

Etymology

From Old French uit, from Latin octō, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation

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Numeral

huit

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) eight

Derived terms

• dgiêx-huit (“eighteen”)

Noun

huit m (plural huits)

1. (Jersey) figure-of-eight knot