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4-letter words (2 found)

HOLT,LOTH,

3-letter words (3 found)

HOT,LOT,THO,

2-letter words (4 found)

HO,LO,OH,TO,

You can make 9 words from holt according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of holt

holt ohlt hlot lhot olht loht hotl ohtl htol thol othl tohl hlto lhto htlo thlo ltho tlho olth loth otlh tolh ltoh tloh

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word holt. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in holt.

Definitions and meaning of holt

holt

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/
  • (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.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXI, line 5
      [the gale] 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger.
  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): [ˈɦolt]
  • 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

  • Rhymes: -ɔlt

Verb

holt

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

German

Pronunciation

Verb

holt

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈholt]
  • 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.

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/, [hoɫt]

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

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