Gehöft

Signification (Anglais)

farm, farmstead, of any size, but especially a small one

Concepts

ferme

grange

métairie

close

Synonymes

Bauernhof

Bauernhaus

Farm

Gutshof

Gut

Hof

Weiler

Heimstätte

jedoch

mehr

plus

stabil

überdies

wiederstandsfähig

Wirtschaftshof

Ackerhof

Farmhaus

firm

Kleinbauernhof

Pachthof

aber

Hofgut

am liebsten

Bauerngut

ferner

fest

feststehend

gediegen

Höfe

Traductions

homestead

farm

caserío

çiftlik

farmstead

cortijo

grange

hard

stable

solid

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡəˈhœft/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen haut-allemand: gehüfte

Appartenant à Middle Low German: gehüchte

Appartenant à néerlandais: gehucht

In summary

From Middle High German gehüfte, so attested 1309 in Königsdorf near Cologne; later also in East Central German gehoffte (and variants). Collective formation from Hof (“yard, farmyard, farm”). Regarding the Dutch colonisation in the east, it is possible that the German word goes back to Middle Dutch, in which ghehuchte, ghehochte, from Old Dutch *gihufti, is older and commoner. Plausibly the same is also true of rare Middle Low German gehüchte. Compare modern Dutch gehucht (“hamlet”).