different between halt vs holt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??lt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /h?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-Germanic *halt?n?. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

Verb

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     Do not smile at me that I boast her of,

     For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,

     And make it halt behind her.

2. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
   • #*

     How long halt ye between two opinions?

3. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
4. To waver.
5. To falter.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French halt, from early modern German halt (“stop!”), imperative of halten (“to hold, to stop”). More at hold.

Verb

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive) To stop marching.
2. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.

   • And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

3. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
4. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.

Synonyms

• (to stop marching):
• (to stop): brake, desist, stay; See also Thesaurus:stop
• (to cause something to stop): freeze, immobilize; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
• (to cause to discontinue): break off, terminate, shut down, stop; See also Thesaurus:desist

Translations

Noun

halt (plural halts)

1. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
2. (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

Synonyms

• (cessation: temporary): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
• (cessation: permanent): close, endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English halt, from Old English healt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“halt, lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *kol-d-, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to beat, strike, cut, slash”). Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

Adjective

halt (comparative more halt, superlative most halt)

1. (archaic) Lame, limping.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IX:

     It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell […]

   • Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

Noun

halt (plural halts)

1. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

Anagrams

• lath, thal

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German halt. Cognate with German halt (adverb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /halt/

Adverb

halt

1. so, just, simply
   • 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):

     Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.

     So we'll arrive a little earlier. Won't do any harm.

Danish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

halt

1. lame

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /halt/

Etymology 1

From the verb halten (“to hold; to stop”).

Verb

halt

1. singular imperative of halten

Interjection

halt!

1. stop!, wait!

Descendants

• ? Dutch: halt
• ? Italian: alt
• ? Spanish: alto
• ? Portuguese: alto
• ? Middle French: halt
  • French: halte
    • ? Dutch: halte
  • ? English: halt

Etymology 2

From Middle High German halt, pertaining to Old High German halto (“soon, fast”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haldiz, an adverbial comparative like *batiz.

Adverb

halt

1. (colloquial, modal particle) Indicating that something is generally known, or cannot be changed, or the like; often untranslatable; so, just, simply, indeed

Usage notes

• The word is originally southern German and is still so considered by some contemporary dictionaries. It has, however, become common throughout the language area during the past decades.

Synonyms

• eben

See also

• ja

Hungarian

Etymology

hal (“to die”) +? -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?lt]
• Hyphenation: halt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

halt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of hal

Participle

halt

1. past participle of hal

Declension

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hal??t??]

Noun

halt m

1. h-prothesized form of alt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haltr, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz.

Pronunciation

• Homophones: hallt, halvt

Adjective

halt (indefinite singular halt, definite singular and plural halte, comparative haltare, indefinite superlative haltast, definite superlative haltaste)

1. limp, limping

Verb

halt

1. imperative of halta and halte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

halt (definite singular and plural halte)

1. past participle of hala and hale

Verb

halt

1. supine of hala and hale

References

• “halt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *h?h (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [?ha?t]

Adjective

halt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular halte)

1. high; elevated

Adverb

halt

1. loud; loudly

Derived terms

• haltement

Descendants

• Middle French: hault
  • French: haut

Old Norse

Adjective

halt

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of haltr

Verb

halt

1. second-person singular imperative active of halda

English

Alternative forms

• hoult (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-Germanic *hult? (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *kl?d- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *kl?- (“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 ?????? (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Albanian shul (“door latch”). Doublet of hout.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h?lt/, /h??lt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?lt/

Noun

holt (plural holts)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 11 p. 174[1]:

     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.

References

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

Anagrams

• HTOL, Loth, loth

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

holt

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

German

Verb

holt

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?holt]
• 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

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 értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse holt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

  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. (antiquated) wood

Declension

Derived terms

• Breiðholt
• Laxárholt

Middle English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lt/

Noun

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

Descendants

• English: holt, hoult
• Scots: holt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?. 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, skauholt

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German of same origin as modern German Holz. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hult?, 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 *hult?. 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 *hult?, 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 main entry.

Adjective

holt

1. neuter of hol

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• hólt (alternative spelling)

Participle

holt (definite singular and plural holte)

1. past participle of hola and hole

Verb

holt

1. supine of hola and hole

References

• “holt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *holt, from Proto-Germanic *hult?.

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 *hult?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xolt/, [ho?t]

Noun

holt n

1. wood, woodland, holt

   Synonyms: fyrhþ, tr?ow, weald, wudu

Descendants

• Middle English: holt
  • English: holt, hoult
  • Scots: holt

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hult?.

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

References

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