Definitions and meaning of kilt
kilt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɪlt/
- Rhymes: -ɪlt
Etymology 1
From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently from North Germanic, ultimately from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“skirt; lap”). Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþǭ, *kilþį̄ (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body; child”). Cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”), Swedish kilta (“to swathe”). Related to English child.
Alternative forms
Verb
kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)
- To gather up (skirts) around the body. [from 14th c.]
Noun
kilt (plural kilts)
- A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. [from 18th c.]
- (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
- A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.
- A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English kilt, equivalent to kill + -t.
Alternative forms
Verb
kilt
- (obsolete or colloquial, especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.
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- 1970 (reprinted 1999) Norman R. Yetman (ed.), Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, p. 160:
- But tweren’t so awful long before Marse Hampton got kilt in de big battle, and Marse Thad, too. Dey was both kilt in de charge, right dere on de breastworks, with de guns in dey hands, dem two young masters of mine, right dere in dat Gettysburg battle […] And I was eighteen in dat October after dat big fight what Marse Thad and Marse Hampton got kilt in.
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Cebuano
Etymology
From English kilt.
Noun
kilt
- a kilt
French
Pronunciation
Noun
kilt m (plural kilts)
- kilt
Further reading
- “kilt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
kilt
- past participle of kile
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English kilt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkilt/
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- Rhymes: -ilt
- Syllabification: kilt
Noun
kilt m inan
- kilt (traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men)
Declension
Further reading
- kilt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kilt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- kilt in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English kilt.
Pronunciation
Noun
kilt m (plural kilts)
- kilt (traditional Scottish man’s skirt)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English kilt.
Noun
kilt m (plural kilturi)
- kilt
Declension
Source: wiktionary.org