stolt

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse stoltr, from Proto-Germanic *stultaz. Doublet of stovt.

Adjective

stolt (neuter stolt, plural and definite singular attributive stolte, comparative stoltere, superlative (predicative) stoltest, superlative (attributive) stolteste)

  1. proud

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

stolt

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz.

Adjective

stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltere, indefinite superlative stoltest, definite superlative stolteste)

  1. proud
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

stolt

  1. past participle of stole

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Low German stolt and Old Norse stoltr, stolz.

Adjective

stolt (neuter singular stolt, definite singular and plural stolte, comparative stoltare, indefinite superlative stoltast, definite superlative stoltaste)

  1. proud
    Synonyms: byrg, kry, kaut, ovmodig, hovmodig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

stolt

  1. past participle of stola

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stolter (majestic, beautiful, fine, proud), from Old Norse stoltr, from Proto-Germanic *stultaz.

See also Danish stolt, Middle Low German stolt, Middle High German and present German stolz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

stolt

  1. proud
    Jag är stolt över dig
    I'm proud of you
    stolt som en tupp
    proud as a cock
    Sedan kommer matadoren, den stoltaste av dem alla
    Then comes the matador, the proudest of them all

Declension

Inflection of stolt
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular stolt stoltare stoltast
neuter singular stolt stoltare stoltast
plural stolta stoltare stoltast
masculine plural2 stolte stoltare stoltast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 stolte stoltare stoltaste
all stolta stoltare stoltaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Adverb

stolt

  1. proudly

See also

  • högmodig (proud, arrogant) (proud in a more intrinsically negative sense)

References

  • stolt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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