holt

See also: Holt

English

Alternative forms

• hoult

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 (“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”), Albanian shul (“door latch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒlt/, /həʊlt/

Noun

holt (plural holts)

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

2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

References

• “holt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “holt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• HTOL, Loth, loth

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

holt

1. (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of hollen
2. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of hollen

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German

Verb

holt

1. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular present of holen.
2. (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural present of holen.
3. (deprecated template usage) Imperative plural of holen.

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Hungarian

Etymology

Old past participle of the verb hal (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈholt]

Adjective

holt (comparative holtabb, superlative legholtabb)

1. (literary) dead (mostly in attributive use)

   Synonyms: halott, elhunyt

   Holt lelkek ― Dead Souls (a novel by Nikolai Gogol)

Declension

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

Derived terms

• holtan

(Compound words):

• félholt
• holtomiglan-holtodiglan
• holtpont
• holtrészeg
• Holt-tenger
• holttest
• holtverseny

(Expressions):

• holt nyelv

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

  Homophones: hollt

Noun

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

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, from Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔlt/

Noun

holt (plural holtes)

1. 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

Descendants

• English: holt
• Scots: holt

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

holt n

1. wood (the material)
2. tree
3. a wood, a forest

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hout
  • Dutch: hout
    • Afrikaans: hout
  • Limburgish: hówtj

Further reading

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

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xolt/, [hoɫt]

Noun

holt n

1. wood

Descendants

• Middle English: holt
  • Scots: holt
  • English: holt

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

holt n

1. wood

   Synonym: skógr

2. rough stony ridge

Declension

  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

Descendants

• Icelandic: holt
• Faroese: holt
• Norwegian Nynorsk: holt
• Norwegian Bokmål: holt
• Old Swedish: hult
  • Swedish: hult
• Danish: holt

References

• “holt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press