holt

• hoult

From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), 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”), Albanian shul (“door latch”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒlt/, /həʊlt/

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
   • 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.

• holt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• holt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• HTOL, Loth, loth

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt

holt

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

holt

1. Third-person singular present of holen.
2. Second-person plural present of holen.
3. Imperative plural of holen.

Old past participle of the verb hal (“to die”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈholt]

holt (comparative holtabb, superlative legholtabb)

1. (literary) dead (mostly in attributive use)

   Synonyms: halott, elhunyt

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

• holtan

(Compound words):

• félholt
• holtomiglan-holtodiglan
• holtpont
• holtrészeg
• Holt-tenger
• holttest
• holtverseny

(Expressions):

• holt nyelv

• IPA^(key): /hɔl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔl̥t

  Homophones: 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. (antiquated) wood

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

From Old English 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

• English: holt
• Scots: holt

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

holt n

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

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

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

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

holt n

1. wood

• Middle English: holt
  • Scots: holt
  • English: holt

From Proto-Germanic *hultą.

holt n

1. wood

   Synonym: skógr

2. rough stony ridge

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