Word Origin Summary

Hout is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *hultąProto-West Germanicinherited from
2. *haltOld Dutchinherited from
3. holtOld Dutchinherited from
4. *holtProto-West Germanicinherited from
5. *haltazProto-West Germanicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hout

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• hou

  Dutch · inherited from

• Rijsenhout

  Dutch · inherited from

• Haarlemmerhout

  Dutch · inherited from

• hout

  Dutch · inherited from

• hout

  English · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root