heute

• (Rémois) ute

Inherited from Old French uit, from Latin octō.

IPA^(key): /œt/

heute

1. (Troyen, Langrois) eight

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

• heut (colloquial or poetic)
• heut'

From Middle High German hiute, from Old High German hiutu, a contraction of earlier *hiu tagu, from Proto-West Germanic *hiu dagu, from Proto-Germanic *hinō dagō (“on this day”, from *hiz + *dagaz). Cognate with Old English hēodæġ (“today”) and Dutch heden (“today”). Compare German heuer from hiu (“in this”) +‎ jāru (“year”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔʏ̯tə/

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• Homophones: häute, Häute

heute

1. today

• Often used where English would use this. German heute früh, heute morgen, heute abend, heute nacht, or heute Morgen, heute Abend, heute Nacht, etc., are used in order to specify a part of the current day (cf. English this morning, this afternoon, etc.).

• heutig
• heutzutage

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