holt

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

boschetto

sinonimi

copse

grove

covert

den

drey

earth

forest

hold

hole

🕳️

lair

sett

warren

burrow

wood

🪵

coppice

Traduzioni

هولت

Gehölz

Hain

Wäldchen

άλσος

bosquet

bocage

boqueteau

petit bois

nemus

viridarium

bosje

bosschage

toevluchtsoord

hakhout

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɒlt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: holt

Ereditato da inglese antico: holt

Affine scozzese: holt

Affine frisone settentrionale: holt

Affine frisone occidentale: hout

Affine olandese: hout

Affine tedesco: Holz

Affine islandese: holt

Affine irlandese antico: caill

Affine greco antico: κλάδος

Affine albanese: 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.