holt

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
2. The lair of an animal, especially of an otter.

Sinonieme

copse

grove

covert

den

drey

earth

forest

hold

hole

🕳️

lair

sett

warren

burrow

wood

🪵

coppice

Vertalings

هولت

Gehölz

Hain

Wäldchen

άλσος

bosquet

bocage

boqueteau

petit bois

boschetto

nemus

viridarium

bosje

bosschage

toevluchtsoord

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/hɒlt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: holt

Geërf van Old English: holt

Verwante met Skots: holt

Verwante met Noord-Fries: holt

Verwante met Fries: hout

Verwante met Nederlands: hout

Verwante met Duits: Holz

Verwante met Yslands: holt

Verwante met Old Irish: caill

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: κλάδος

Verwante met Albanees: shul

In summary

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.