Olt
Olt m anim (female equivalent Oltová)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Olt
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Olt | — |
accusative | Oltot | — |
dative | Oltnak | — |
instrumental | Olttal | — |
causal-final | Oltért | — |
translative | Olttá | — |
terminative | Oltig | — |
essive-formal | Oltként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Oltban | — |
superessive | Olton | — |
adessive | Oltnál | — |
illative | Oltba | — |
sublative | Oltra | — |
allative | Olthoz | — |
elative | Oltból | — |
delative | Oltról | — |
ablative | Olttól | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Olté | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Oltéi | — |
Possessive forms of Olt | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Oltom | — |
2nd person sing. | Oltod | — |
3rd person sing. | Oltja | — |
1st person plural | Oltunk | — |
2nd person plural | Oltotok | — |
3rd person plural | Oltjuk | — |
Uncertain. The name has been used since the ancient times, but the phonetic change a > o appears to indicate that the word reached Romanian through a Slavic intermediary (similar to the change from acetum to oțet). Direct inheritance from Latin would have yielded *Arută.
Ancient recorded variants include: Ancient Greek Aλoύτα (Aloúta) (Strabo), Ancient Greek Aλoύταζ (Aloútaz) (Ptolemaios), Latin Alutus (Tabula Peutingeriana).
Olt n (genitive and dative Oltului)
singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | Olt | Oltul |
genitive-dative | Olt | Oltului |
vocative | Oltule |