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English
Verb
wolt
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of woll
Fingallian
Etymology
From Middle English wort (“grass, root”), from Old English wyrt, from Proto-West Germanic *wurti.
Noun
wolt
- (figurative) eyelash
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Wolt,
- Lash.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- Stem vowel: ô²
- IPA(key): (originally) /wɔːlt/, /wɔlt/
- While the combination /ld/ originally lengthened the vowel in Old Saxon, in several Middle Low German dialects it was treated like a geminate, or had actually become /lː/, and in turn shortened long vowels occurring before it. Further, the vowel was shortened before /lt/ from final obstruent devoicing. Dialects then often begun to apply the more common vowel length across all forms.
Etymology 1
From Old Saxon wāld, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, see also Old English weald, Old Norse völlr.
Noun
wôlt or wolt m (genitive wôldes)
Alternative forms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
wôlt or wolt
- alternative form of gewôlt
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Polish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.
Noun
wolt m inan
- volt (unit of measure)
Declension
Declension of wolt
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
wolt f
Further reading
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