Other forms: huts
A hut is a small rough building of one room. A mountain hut, a beach hut, a wooden hut.
It is defined by simplicity rather than material — one room, basic construction, often temporary. Mountain huts on walking routes are staffed and can be surprisingly comfortable. Beach huts in Britain are small, unheated and startlingly expensive. Note that the word came from French and is related to hide, in the sense of shelter.
1nounhutA small rough building of one room.
“The shepherd lived in a small wooden hut on the hillside.”
hut is a small building.
Middle French hutte came into English and was reinforced by a native root meaning to hide. Hide and hoard are related.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kewt- — to deck; cover; covering; skin
Proto-Germanic
*hudjǭ
Old High German
hutta — hut, cottage
Old French
hute — hut
Middle French
hutte
Anglo-Norman
hute
Old English
hōd
Middle English
*hutte
English, today
hut
Built from
From Middle English hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic hudjǭ, hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), stq Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA