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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/holt
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hultą.
Noun
*holt n[1]
- woods, forest
- wood
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *holt | *holtu |
Accusative | *holt | *holtu |
Genitive | *holtas | *holtō |
Dative | *holtē | *holtum |
Instrumental | *holtu | *holtum |
Descendants
- Old English: holt
- Middle English: holt
- Scots: holt
- English: holt
- Middle English: holt
- Old Frisian: holt
- North Frisian: holt
- Saterland Frisian: Holt
- West Frisian: hout
- Old Saxon: holt
- Middle Low German: holt
- Low German: Holt
- Plautdietsch: Holt
- Middle Low German: holt
- Old Dutch: holt
- Middle Dutch: hout
- Dutch: hout
- Afrikaans: hout
- Limburgish: hówtj
- Dutch: hout
- Middle Dutch: hout
- Old High German: holz
- Middle High German: holz
- Cimbrian: hòltz
- German: Holz
- Luxembourgish: Holz
- Mòcheno: holz
- Vilamovian: hułc
- Middle High German: holz
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 33: “PWGmc *holt”