An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Hütte

by Friedrich Kluge

Hütte, feminine, ‘cottage, hut, foundry, tent,’ from Middle High German hütte, Old High German hutta, feminine, ‘hut, tent’; a specifically High German word which found its way into Dutch, English, and Romance; compare Dutch hut, English hut, French hutte, ‘hut’ In Gothic perhaps *huþja, and related to Anglo-Saxon hŷdan, English to hide (from *hûdjan), Teutonic root hū̆d, from Aryan kū̆th, allied to Greek κεὐθω?. Compare Haus.