different between holt vs grove

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English gr?f, gr?fa (“grove; copse”); compare English groove. Related to Old English gr?f, gr?fe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”) and Old English gr?fa (“thicket”). More at greave.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

grove (plural groves)

1. A small forest.
2. An orchard of fruit trees.
3. (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
4. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.

Derived terms

Related terms

• mangrove

Translations

See also

• thicket
• copse
• spinney

Verb

grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)

1. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
   • 1841, R, Sapp, Orchard Lake, in L. L. Hamline (editor), The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165,

     It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some Indian.

   • 1822, Robert Chapman, The Topographical Picture of Glasgow in its Ancient and Modern State, 3rd Edition, page 195,

     The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.

   • 1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,

     Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.

2. (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
   • 1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86,

     In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between them. The effect produced on these groved trees is, that from being exposed to air and sun, the rapidity of their growth is increased in bulk, height, and quality; and in sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber.

3. To plough or gouge with lines.
   • 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,

     Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they^{[the ants]} have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.

   • 1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 2, page 14,

     The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.

Synonyms

• (gouge with lines): groove

Anagrams

• Gover

Danish

Adjective

grove

1. definite of grov
2. plural of grov

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

grove

1. Inflected form of grof

Middle English

Alternative forms

• grof, grave

Etymology

Inherited from Old English gr?f, gr?fa.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /??r??v(?)/
• IPA^(key): /??r??v(?)/

Noun

grove (plural groves or groven)

1. grove ("small forest")

Descendants

• English: grove
• Scots: grave (obsolete)
• Yola: greve

References

• “gr?ve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-06.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

grove

1. definite singular of grov
2. plural of grov