holt

See also Holt

English

Etymology

From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse. thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wook, 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 κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Albanian shul (“door latch”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlt

Noun

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

   She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park. -- Tennyson.

   • (the gale) 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger. A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

References

• holt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• holt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• loth

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

holt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of hollen
2. plural imperative of hollen

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German

Verb

holt

1. Third-person singular present of holen.
2. Second-person plural present of holen.
3. Imperative plural of holen.

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Hungarian

Etymology

Old past participle of the verb hal.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈholt/

Adjective

holt

1. dead

Derived terms

• félholt
• holtrészeg
• holttest
• holtverseny

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

  Homophones: hollt

Noun

holt n (genitive singular holts, plural holt)

1. 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.

2. (antiquated) wood

Declension

declension of holt

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	holt	holtið	holt	holtin
accusative	holt	holtið	holt	holtin
dative	holti	holtinu	holtum	holtunum
genitive	holts	holtsins	holta	holtanna

Derived terms

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English holt.

Noun

holt

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.

   Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes... -- Chaucer, Gen. Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll. 5-6

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

holt n

1. wood