gewolt
Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- Stem vowel: ô²
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- While the combination /ld/ originally lengthened the vowel in Old Saxon, in several Middle Low German dialects it was treated like a geminate, or had actually become /lː/, and in turn shortened long vowels occurring before it. Further, the vowel was shortened before /lt/ from final obstruent devoicing. Dialects then often begun to apply the more common vowel length across all forms.
Etymology
From ge- + wôlt, from Old Saxon wāld. The presence of the prefix is a regional variation going back to Old Saxon.
Related to the verb wôlden (“reign, do as one pleases”) from the Proto-Germanic *walþą. Cognate with German Gewalt (“power, violence”).
Noun
gewôlt or gewolt f (dative gewôlde, plural gewôlden)
Alternative forms
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- Middle Low German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Low German terms prefixed with ge-
- Middle Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Middle Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- Middle Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Low German lemmas
- Middle Low German nouns
- Middle Low German feminine nouns