holt

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

bosquet

bocage

boqueteau

petit bois

Synonymes

copse

grove

covert

den

drey

earth

forest

hold

hole

🕳️

lair

sett

warren

burrow

wood

🪵

coppice

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hɒlt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.