wolt

wolt

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of woll

From Middle English volte, from Old French volte. Cognate with Middle Scots vault (“eyebrow”).

wolt

1. (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.

• 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.

From Old Saxon wāld, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, see also Old English weald, Old Norse völlr.

wôlt or wolt m (genitive wôldes)

1. a wood, a forest

• wôld

• Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
• German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
• Plautdietsch: Woolt

From Old Saxon wāld.

wôlt or wolt

1. alternative form of gewôlt

• volt

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt
• Syllabification: wolt

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

wolt m inan

1. volt (unit of measure)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wolt f

1. genitive plural of wolta

• “wolt”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “wolt”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)