holt
Middle English
/hɔlt/
noun
Definitions
- A small piece of woodland; a wooded hill.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English holt (forest, thicket, timber, grove, wood) inherited from *holt inherited from Proto-Germanic *hultą (wood).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hultą
Gloss
wood
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing