hat – English noun declension

English noun forms of hat

Noun: hat
Singularhat
Pluralhats

Sample Sentences

  • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. [1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:]
  • Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat! [2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:]
  • It's all a matter of hats, Minister. [1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):]
  • My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother. [1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 2000, →ISBN, page 121:]
  • We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
  • The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls. [2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:]
  • I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.” [1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <[email protected]>#1/1]
  • I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew. [1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort.
2. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
3. Verb sense 4 derives from a common English Wikipedia template used to collapse disruptive discussions, {{Hidden archive top}}, abbreviated as {{hat}}. See: Middle English Nouns 'hat', Old English Nouns 'hætt', Icelandic Nouns 'hattur', Finnish Nouns 'hattu', Latin Nouns 'cassis'.

Verbs referencing "hat"

Finnish Nouns hattu, Latin Nouns cassis.