colt

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A young male horse.
2. A young crane (bird).
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (figuratively, slang) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
5. (figuratively, obsolete, slang) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
6. (historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
8. A young camel or donkey.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
3. (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.

Sinonieme

foal

filly

horse

🐴

pony

yearling

steed

young male horse

cub

mare

mustang

stallion

Equus caballus

young of any animal

calf

wanton

green hand

wild stallion

Vertalings

poulain

potro

puledro

Fohlen

veulen

potro

poltre

potranco

πουλάρι

tay

equuleus

hengstveulen

Hengstfohlen

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kəʊlt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: colt

Geërf van Old English: colt

Verwante met Faroëes: koltur

Verwante met Noors: kult

Verwante met Sweeds: kult

In summary

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.