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English

Noun

galt

1. Alternative form of gault

Anagrams

• LGAT

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Cimbrian galt (“not milch; barren”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt

1. (Uri, of cows) Not milch.

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Alemannic German galt (“not milch”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt (Sette Comuni)

1. (especially of cows) Not milch.

2. (also of human women) barren, infertile

Declension

References

• “galt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

galt

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gelten

Icelandic

Verb

galt

1. first-person singular past indicative of gjalda
2. third-person singular past indicative of gjalda

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

galt

1. neuter singular of gal

Adverb

galt

1. wrong

References

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• galte

Etymology

From Old Norse galti, galtr, g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

galt m (definite singular galten, indefinite plural galtar, definite plural galtane)

1. a male pig, especially one that is castrated

   Synonyms: hanngris, råne

References

• “galt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lagt

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish galter, from Old Norse g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtô.

Noun

galt c

1. boar; male pig

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

galt

1. supine of gala.

Anagrams

• lagt

English

Noun

falt (plural falts)

1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205:

     ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.

Anagrams

• flat

Hungarian

Etymology

fal +? -t (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?lt]
• Hyphenation: falt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

falt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fal

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

falt

1. inflection of falle:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

falt

1. neuter singular of fal

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *falþ?, whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.

Noun

falt f

1. fold

Descendants

• Middle High German: valt, valte
  • Cimbrian: falda
  • German: Falte

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• folt

Etymology

From Old Irish folt.

Noun

falt f (genitive fuilt)

1. hair, specifically that on the head.

Swedish

Adjective

falt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of fal.

See also

• -faldig
• -falt
• falta
• trefalt

Anagrams

• flat