Holt Definition
An English and north-west European topographic surname for someone who lived by a small wood.
Other Word Forms of Holt
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Origin of Holt
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From Middle English holt, from Old English holt (“forest, wood, grove, thicket; wood, timber”), from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *kald-, *klād- (“timber, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *kola-, *klā- (“to beat, hew, break, destroy, kill”). Cognate with Scots holt (“a wood, copse. thicket”), North Frisian holt (“wook, timber”), West Frisian hout (“timber, wood”), Dutch hout (“wood, timber”), German Holz (“wood”), Icelandic holt (“woodland, hillock”), Old Irish caill (“forest, wood, woodland”), Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos, “branch, shoot, twig”), Albanian shul (“door latch”).
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Middle English from Old English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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