wolt

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • IPA^(key): /wɔːlt/ or IPA^(key): /wɔlt/
  • 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 1

From Old Saxon wāld, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse völlr.

Noun

wôlt or wolt m (genitive wôldes)

1. a wood, a forest

Alternative forms

• wôld

Descendants

• Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
• German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
  • Plautdietsch: Woolt

Etymology 2

From Old Saxon wāld.

Noun

wôlt or wolt

1. Alternative form of gewôlt.

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Polish

Noun

wolt m (symbol V)

1. volt

Declension

Declension of wolt

	singular	plural
nominative	wolt	wolty
genitive	wolta	woltów
dative	woltowi	woltom
accusative	wolt	wolty
instrumental	woltem	woltami
locative	wolcie	woltach
vocative	wolcie	wolty

Derived terms

• woltomierz