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HAUST

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n.; that this word was originally masc. (as vetr, sumarr) is seen from the other Teut. idioms, as also the Norse form haustar- (for haust-), which occurs in haustar-tími, Stj. 14, and haustar-dagr, D. N. (Fr.), = haust-tími, haust-dagr; [A. S. hærfest; Engl. harvest; O. H. G. herbist; Germ. herbst; Dan. höst = harvest; Swed. höst: haust is in Icel. only used in a metaph. sense]:—autumn (harvest season), for the extension of that season see Edda 103, Nj. 9, 168, Fb. ii. 185, passim.
COMPDS: haustblót, haustboð, hauatbær, haustdagr, haustgríma, haustheimtur, hausthold, haustkveld, haustlag, haustlangr, haustleiðangr, Haustlöng, haustmánuðr, haustmyrkr, haustnott, haustskuld, haustsól, haustveðrátta, haustvíking, haustþing, haustöl.