Romanian

Noun

Olt

1. a river in Romania, the longest flowing exclusively through it
2. a county in Romania, Olt County

Derived terms

• Oltenia

Hungarian

Verb

olt

1. (of fire) to extinguish, to put out
2. (of light) to switch off
3. (of thirst) to quench
4. (of milk) to curdle
5. to slake (lime, compound of calcium)
6. (slang) to criticize, to flame (for fun, maybe only on the speaker's side, maybe both)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (put out): elolt, kiolt
• (switch off lights): elolt, leolt, lekapcsol, lecsuk
• (milk, lime): beolt
• (criticize): leolt, oltogat

Derived terms

• olthatatlan

Etymology 2

Of debated origin: ^[1]

1. From Proto-Ugric *alɜ- ‎(“to add/fasten to something, fit”) ^[2]
2. Native development from the archaic avik ‎(“to intrude”).

Verb

olt

1. (transitive, medicine) to inoculate, to vaccinate (by injection)
2. to graft

Conjugation

Synonyms

• beolt

Derived terms

• oltvány

References

1. 1 2 Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
2. ↑ Entry #1721 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɔːlt/ or IPA^(key): /ɔlt/
  • 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

From Old Saxon āld, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz. Cognate with English old, Dutch oud, German alt, West Frisian âld.

Adjective

ôlt or olt ‎(comparative ôlder or ö̂lder or êlder, superlative ôldest or ö̂ldest or êldest)

1. old

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: old
• dialectal German: oll