holt

Meaning

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

Synonyms

copse

grove

covert

den

drey

earth

forest

hold

hole

🕳️

lair

sett

warren

burrow

wood

🪵

coppice

Translations

هولت

Gehölz

Hain

Wäldchen

άλσος

bosquet

bocage

boqueteau

petit bois

boschetto

nemus

viridarium

bosje

bosschage

toevluchtsoord

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɒlt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: holt

Inherited from Old English: holt

Cognate with Scots: holt

Cognate with Northern Frisian: holt

Cognate with Western Frisian: hout

Cognate with Dutch: hout

Cognate with German: Holz

Cognate with Icelandic: holt

Cognate with Old Irish: caill

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κλάδος

Cognate with Albanian: 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.