aht

aht (comparative more aht, superlative most aht)

1. Pronunciation spelling of out.
   • 1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:

     'Git aht!' said Liza, pushing him away, not too gently.

   • 1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Ann Veronica, London: T. Fisher Unwin:

     "Kick aht at 'em!" though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, resenting only the thrusting policemen's hands.

   • 1916 February 23, “Underground Game”, in Punch, or the London Charivari‎, volume 150:

     "Look aht, Percy," enjoined a hollow but reassuring voice, "'ere comes another!"

• ATH, HAT, hat, tha

Compare Romanian aht (“sigh”).

aht m (definite ahti)

1. moan, sigh

• Jungg, G. (1895) “aht”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 2

• “aht”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Borrowed from Greek άχτι (áchti).

aht n (plural ahturi)

1. sigh