holt

• hoult (obsolete)

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.

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

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

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

     [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.
   • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:

     Where the river begins to slow, at the beginning of the pool, its left bank is bound by the open roots of oak, ash, alder, and sycamore. To hunted otters these trees offered holding as secure as any in the country of the Two Rivers. Harper, the aged hound—he was fourteen years old—knew every holt in the riverside trees of Knackershill Copse, and although he had marked at all of them, only once had he cracked the rib of an otter found in the pool.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “holt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “holt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• HTOL, Loth, loth

• halt

Borrowed from German halt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦolt]
• Homophone: hold

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.

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

• “holt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “holt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt

holt

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

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holt

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈholt]
• Rhymes: -olt

From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +‎ -t (past-participle suffix).^[1] Compare Northern Mansi холат (holat).

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

1. (literary) dead, deceased

   Synonyms: halott, elhunyt

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

holt (plural holtak)

1. (literary) dead (a deceased person)

   Synonym: halott

From the hol- stem variant of hal (“to die”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix). For the ending, compare hit, tét, jövet, menet.^[2]

holt (usually uncountable, plural holtak)

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

   Synonyms: halál, meghalás

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

From Old Norse holt.

• IPA^(key): /hɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

  Homophone: hollt

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

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

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

• IPA^(key): /hɔlt/

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)

• English: holt, hoult (obsolete)
• Scots: holt (archaic)

• “holt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

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

1. a grove

   Synonym: lund

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

From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hultą, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).

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

• “holt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. a grove

   Synonym: lund

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

From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hultą, it is a doublet of holt (Etymology 1).

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

• ibenholt
• kryssholt
• losholt m
• rettholt
• rundholt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

holt

1. neuter of hol

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• hólt (alternative spelling)

holt (definite singular and plural holte)

1. past participle of hola

holt

1. supine of hola

• “holt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

holt n

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

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

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

From Proto-West Germanic *holþ, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz.

holt

2. friendly
3. loyal

• Middle Dutch: holt, hout
  • Dutch: hou

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

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

• IPA^(key): /xolt/, [hoɫt]

holt n

1. wood, woodland, holt

   Synonyms: fyrhþ, trēow, weald, wudu

Strong a-stem:

• æsċholt

• Middle English: holt
  • English: holt, hoult (obsolete)
  • Scots: holt (archaic)

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

holt n

1. wood

   Synonym: skógr

2. rough stony ridge

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “holt”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive