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holt

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See also: Holt, hǫlt, and holt-

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *holt, 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 (“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 κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Slovene kol ("stake"), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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holt (plural holts)

  1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
  2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.
    • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
      Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.

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Anagrams

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Czech

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German halt.

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Interjection

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holt

  1. (colloquial, modal particle) indicating that something is generally known, or cannot be changed, or the like; often untranslatable; so, just, simply, indeed, well
    Máš holt pravdu. ― Well, you're right.
    Pak budeme holt muset tvrději pracovat. ― Then we’ll just have to work harder.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish holt, from Old Norse holt (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with English holt and German Holz.

Noun

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holt n (singular definite holtet, plural indefinite holte)

  1. (obsolete) wood, forest (of any size); (or strictly) coppice
    Synonyms: skov, lund

Declension

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Declension of holt
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative holt holtet holte holtene
genitive holts holtets holtes holtenes

Usage notes

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  • Although obsolete in modern Danish and unfamiliar to most speakers, the term survives in a number of placenames.

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Dutch

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Verb

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holt

  1. inflection of hollen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

German

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Verb

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holt

  1. inflection of holen:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +‎ -t (past-participle suffix).[1] Compare Northern Mansi холат (holat).

Adjective

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holt (not generally comparable, comparative holtabb, superlative legholtabb)

  1. (literary) dead, deceased
    Synonyms: halott, elhunyt
    Holt lelkek ― Dead Souls (a novel by Nikolai Gogol)
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Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative holt holtak
accusative holtat holtakat
dative holtnak holtaknak
instrumental holttal holtakkal
causal-final holtért holtakért
translative holttá holtakká
terminative holtig holtakig
essive-formal holtként holtakként
essive-modal — —
inessive holtban holtakban
superessive holton holtakon
adessive holtnál holtaknál
illative holtba holtakba
sublative holtra holtakra
allative holthoz holtakhoz
elative holtból holtakból
delative holtról holtakról
ablative holttól holtaktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		holté holtaké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		holtéi holtakéi

Noun

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holt (plural holtak)

  1. (literary) dead (a deceased person)
    Synonym: halott
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative holt holtak
accusative holtat holtakat
dative holtnak holtaknak
instrumental holttal holtakkal
causal-final holtért holtakért
translative holttá holtakká
terminative holtig holtakig
essive-formal holtként holtakként
essive-modal — —
inessive holtban holtakban
superessive holton holtakon
adessive holtnál holtaknál
illative holtba holtakba
sublative holtra holtakra
allative holthoz holtakhoz
elative holtból holtakból
delative holtról holtakról
ablative holttól holtaktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		holté holtaké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		holtéi holtakéi
Possessive forms of holt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. holtom —
2nd person sing. holtod —
3rd person sing. holta —
1st person plural holtunk —
2nd person plural holtotok —
3rd person plural holtuk —

Derived terms

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Compound words
Expressions

Etymology 2

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From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix). For the ending, compare hit, tét, jövet, menet.[2]

Noun

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holt (usually uncountable, plural holtak)

  1. (archaic, now only in certain phrases, chiefly with possessive suffixes) death
    Synonyms: halál, meghalás
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative holt holtak
accusative holtat holtakat
dative holtnak holtaknak
instrumental holttal holtakkal
causal-final holtért holtakért
translative holttá holtakká
terminative holtig holtakig
essive-formal holtként holtakként
essive-modal — —
inessive holtban holtakban
superessive holton holtakon
adessive holtnál holtaknál
illative holtba holtakba
sublative holtra holtakra
allative holthoz holtakhoz
elative holtból holtakból
delative holtról holtakról
ablative holttól holtaktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		holté holtaké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		holtéi holtakéi
Possessive forms of holt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. holtom —
2nd person sing. holtod —
3rd person sing. holta —
1st person plural holtunk —
2nd person plural holtotok —
3rd person plural holtuk —
Derived terms
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Compound words
Expressions

References

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  1. ^ holt in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
  2. ^ holt in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

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  • holt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse holt.

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Noun

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holt n (genitive singular holts, nominative 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. (archaic) wood

Declension

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Declension of holt (neuter)
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

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English holt, from Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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holt (plural holtes)

  1. A small piece of woodland; a wooded hill.

Descendants

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  • English: holt, hoult (obsolete)
  • Scots: holt (archaic)

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą. Akin to Swedish hult and German Holz. Doublet of holt (Etymology 2).

Noun

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holt n (definite singular holtet, indefinite plural holt, definite plural holta or holtene)

  1. a grove
    Synonym: lund
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hultą, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).

Noun

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holt m or n (definite singular holten or holtet, indefinite plural holter or holt, definite plural holtene or holta)

  1. a pole or other piece of wood made for a specific purpose
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą. Akin to Swedish hult and German Holz. Doublet of holt (Etymology 2).

Noun

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holt n (definite singular holtet, indefinite plural holt, definite plural holta)

  1. a grove
    Synonym: lund
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hultą, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).

Noun

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holt m or n (definite singular holten or holtet, indefinite plural holtar or holt, definite plural holtane or holta)

  1. a pole or other piece of wood made for a specific purpose
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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holt

  1. neuter of hol

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

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  • hólt (alternative spelling)

Participle

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holt (definite singular and plural holte)

  1. past participle of hola

Verb

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holt

  1. supine of hola

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Old Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

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holt n

  2. wood (the material)
  3. tree
  4. a wood, a forest
Inflection
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Declension of holt (neuter a-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative holt holt
accusative holt holt
genitive holtes holto
dative holte holton
Descendants
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References

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  • “holt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Etymology 2

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From Proto-West Germanic *holþ, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz.

Adjective

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holt

  2. friendly
  3. loyal
Inflection
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Declension of holt (a-stem)
strong declension
case masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative holt holt holt holda, holde
accusative holdan, holden holda holt holda, holde
genitive holdes holdero holdes holdero
dative holdin, holdemo holdero holdin, holdemo holdon
weak declension
case masculine feminine neuter plural
nominative holdo holda holda holdon
accusative holdon holdon holda holdon
genitive holdin holdon holdin holdono
dative holdin holdon holdin holdon
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References

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  • “holt (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hultą.

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Noun

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holt n

  1. wood, woodland, holt
    Synonyms: fyrhþ, trēow, weald, wudu

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative holt holt
accusative holt holt
genitive holtes holta
dative holte holtum

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

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holt n

  1. wood
    Synonym: skógr
  2. rough stony ridge

Declension

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Declension of holt (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative holt holtit holt holtin
accusative holt holtit holt holtin
dative holti holtinu holtum holtunum
genitive holts holtsins holta holtanna

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Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “holt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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