different between molt vs polt

English

Etymology 1

Verb

molt (third-person singular simple present molts, present participle molting, simple past and past participle molted)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

Noun

molt (plural molts)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “molt”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language

Etymology 2

Verb

molt

1. (rare) simple past tense of melt

Anagrams

• LMTO

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin multus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?molt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mol/

Adjective

molt (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. much, many

   Synonym: força

   Antonym: poc

Derived terms

Adverb

molt

1. very

   Synonym: força

   Antonyms: gaire, gens, poc, una mica

Noun

molt m (uncountable)

1. a lot, a great deal, a large amount

   Antonyms: poc, una mica

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?lt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Verb

molt m (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of mòlt (“ground”)

Further reading

• “molt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “molt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “molt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish molt (“wether”), from Proto-Celtic *molto- (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-).

Noun

molt m (genitive singular moilt, nominative plural moilt)

1. wether
2. (figuratively) sulky, morose person

Declension

Mutation

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin multum (adverb), neuter of multus.

Adjective

molt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular molte)

1. much; many; a lot of

Declension

Adverb

molt (invariable)

1. very, a lot, a great deal

Synonyms

• (adjective): maint
• (adverb): maint, biau cop

Descendants

• French: moult

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (molt)
• mut on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *moltos (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-, source of French mouton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mol?t/

Noun

molt m (genitive muilt, nominative plural muilt)

1. ram, wether

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: molt
• Manx: mohlt
• Scottish Gaelic: mult

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “molt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

molt m

1. Alternative form of mult

English

Etymology

Possibly a variant of palt or pelt (verb).

Noun

polt (plural polts)

1. (now dialectal) A hard knock.
   • 1782: Frances Burney, Cecilia, or memoirs of an heiress - If he know'd I'd got you the knife, he'd go nigh to give me a good polt of the head.
2. (obsolete, rare) A pestle.
   • 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, in Kupperman 1988, p. 138:

     Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.

Derived terms

• polt-foot

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, plot

Estonian

Noun

polt (genitive poldi, partitive polti)

1. bolt (fastener)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• polt in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat