holt

English

Alternative forms

• hoult (obsolete)

Etymology

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɒlt/, /həʊlt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊlt/
• Rhymes: -ɒlt, -əʊlt, -oʊlt

Noun

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 11 p. 174:

     As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5

     '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

Czech

Alternative forms

• halt

Etymology

Borrowed from German halt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Homophone: hold

Interjection

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.

See also

• inu
• zkrátka
• ovšem
• tedy
• tak
• tož

Further reading

• holt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• holt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

holt

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

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

holt

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -olt

Etymology 1

From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +‎ -t (past-participle suffix).

Adjective

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

1. (literary) dead, deceased

   Synonyms: halott, elhunyt

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

Declension

Noun

holt (plural holtak)

1. (literary) dead (a deceased person)

   Synonym: halott

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

holt (usually uncountable, plural holtak)

1. (archaic, now only in certain phrases, chiefly with possessive suffixes) death

   Synonyms: halál, meghalás

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse holt.

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

Derived terms

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English holt, from Proto-West Germanic *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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: holt, hoult
• Scots: holt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. a grove

   Synonym: lund

Derived terms

• fureholt, furuholt
• granholt
• hasleholt, hasselholt
• skogholt, skauholt

Etymology 2

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

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

Derived terms

• flytholt
• friholt
• ibenholt
• kryssholt
• losholt m
• rettholt
• rundholt

References

• “holt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. a grove

   Synonym: lund

Derived terms

• fureholt, furuholt
• granholt
• hasleholt, hasselholt
• skogholt

Etymology 2

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

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

Derived terms

• ibenholt
• kryssholt
• losholt m
• rettholt
• rundholt

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

holt

1. neuter of hol

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

• hólt (alternative spelling)

Participle

holt (definite singular and plural holte)

1. past participle of hola

Verb

holt

1. supine of hola

References

• “holt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *holt, 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

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xolt/,

Noun

holt n

1. wood, woodland, holt

   Synonyms: fyrhþ, trēow, weald, wudu

Declension

Derived terms

• æsċholt

Descendants

• Middle English: holt
  • English: holt, hoult
  • Scots: holt

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

Noun

holt n

1. wood

   Synonym: skógr

2. rough stony ridge

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: holt
• Faroese: holt
• Norwegian: holt
• Old Swedish: hult
  • Swedish: holt, hult
• Danish: holt
• Old Gutnish: hult

References

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