wolt

English

Verb

wolt

1. (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

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.

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)

1. a wood, a forest

Alternative forms

• wôld

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

From Old Saxon wāld.

Noun

wôlt or wolt

1. Alternative form of gewôlt.

Polish

Alternative forms

• volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlt
• Syllabification: wolt

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

wolt m inan

1. volt (unit of measure)

Declension

Declension of wolt

	singular	plural
nominative	wolt	wolty
genitive	wolta	woltów
dative	woltowi	woltom
accusative	wolt	wolty
instrumental	woltem	woltami
locative	wolcie	woltach
vocative	wolcie	wolty

Derived terms

nouns

• amperowoltomierz
• woltaż
• woltomierz

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

wolt f

1. genitive plural of wolta

Further reading

• wolt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wolt in Polish dictionaries at PWN