huit

English

Interjection

huit

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)**
	80^{[a], [b]}
← 7	8	9 →
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

(Valencia) Alternative form of vuit (“eight”)

Noun

huit m (plural huits)

(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
Hyphenation^(key): huit

Adverb

huit

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

French

**French numbers ^(edit)**
	80^{[a], [b], [c]}
← 7	8	9 →
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)
- Audio (France); [ɥit]: (file)
- (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɥɪt]
- (Belgium) IPA^(key): [wit]
^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɥi/ (before modified word in a consonant or aspirated h)
Rhymes: -it