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holt
English
Alternative forms
- hoult (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-Germanic *hult? (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *kl?d- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *kl?- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”).
Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse, thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wood, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h?lt/, /h??lt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ho?lt/
Noun
holt (plural holts)
- A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 174[1]:
- As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
- [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
- 1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts:
- Once, at our cottage at Dodford, a tiny thatched village under a steep holt full of foxgloves...
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 174[1]:
- The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
References
- holt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- holt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- HTOL, Loth, loth
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lt
Verb
holt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of hollen
- (archaic) plural imperative of hollen
German
Verb
holt
- inflection of holen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?holt]
- Rhymes: -olt
Etymology 1
From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +? -t (past-participle suffix).
Adjective
holt (not generally comparable, comparative holtabb, superlative legholtabb)
- (literary) dead, deceased
- Synonyms: halott, elhunyt
Declension
Noun
holt (plural holtak)
- (literary) dead (a deceased person)
- Synonym: halott
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +? -t (noun-forming suffix). For the ending, compare hit, tét, jövet, menet.
Noun
holt (usually uncountable, plural holtak)
- (archaic, now only in certain phrases, chiefly with possessive suffixes) death
- Synonyms: halál, meghalás
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- holt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse holt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?l?t/
- Rhymes: -?l?t
- Homophones: hollt
Noun
holt n (genitive singular holts, nominative plural holt)
- hillock
- Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen
- Þey þey! þey þey! þaut í holti tófa,
- þurran vill hún blóði væta góm,
- eða líka einhver var að hóa
- undarlega digrum karlaróm;
- útilegumenn í Ódáðahraun
- eru kannske að smala fé á laun.
- Hush, hush, hush, hush,
- a vixen dashed in the hillock,
- wanting to quench his thirst with blood.
- Or - is it someone calling,
- strangely, with a harsh voice?
- Outlawed men, in the vast waste land
- are secretly guarding their stolen sheep.
- Á Sprengisandi (“On Sprengisandur”) by Grímur Thomsen
- (antiquated) wood
Declension
Derived terms
- Breiðholt
- Laxárholt
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English holt, from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?lt/
Noun
holt (plural holtes)
- A small piece of woodland; a wooded hill.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
- Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
- Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
Descendants
- English: holt, hoult
- Scots: holt
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?. Akin to Swedish hult and German Holz. Doublet of holt (Etymology 2).
Noun
holt n (definite singular holtet, indefinite plural holt, definite plural holta)
- a grove
- Synonym: lund
Derived terms
- fureholt, furuholt
- granholt
- hasleholt, hasselholt
- skogholt, skauholt
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hult?, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).
Noun
holt m or n (definite singular holten or holtet, indefinite plural holter or holt, definite plural holtene or holta)
- a pole or other piece of wood made for a specific purpose
Derived terms
- flytholt
- friholt
- ibenholt
- kryssholt
- losholt m
- rettholt
- rundholt
References
- “holt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?. Akin to Swedish hult and German Holz. Doublet of holt (Etymology 2).
Noun
holt n (definite singular holtet, indefinite plural holt, definite plural holta)
- a grove
- Synonym: lund
Derived terms
- fureholt, furuholt
- granholt
- hasleholt, hasselholt
- skogholt
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hult?, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).
Noun
holt m or n (definite singular holten or holtet, indefinite plural holtar or holt, definite plural holtane or holta)
- a pole or other piece of wood made for a specific purpose
Derived terms
- ibenholt
- kryssholt
- losholt m
- rettholt
- rundholt
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
holt
- neuter of hol
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Alternative forms
- hólt (alternative spelling)
Participle
holt (definite singular and plural holte)
- past participle of hola and hole
Verb
holt
- supine of hola and hole
References
- “holt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?.
Noun
holt n
- wood (the material)
- tree
- a wood, a forest
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: hout
- Dutch: hout
- Afrikaans: hout
- Limburgish: hówtj
- Dutch: hout
Further reading
- “holt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xolt/, [ho?t]
Noun
holt n
- wood, woodland, holt
- Synonyms: fyrhþ, tr?ow, weald, wudu
Descendants
- Middle English: holt
- English: holt, hoult
- Scots: holt
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hult?.
Noun
holt n
- wood
- Synonym: skógr
- rough stony ridge
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: holt
- Faroese: holt
- Norwegian: holt
- Old Swedish: hult
- Swedish: holt, hult
- Danish: holt
References
- holt in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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