halt

1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript)

So we'll arrive a little earlier. Won't do any harm.

Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.

From Middle High German halt. Cognate with German halt (adverb).


halt

Sis halt su.

From Middle High German halt, from Old High German halt, pertaining to Old High German halto (“soon, fast”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haldiz, according to Duden, ultimately related to *halþaz (“inclined, sloping”). Compare German halt.


halt

Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Do not smile at me that I boast her of,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

(intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.

How long halt ye between two opinions?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:21:

(intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

(intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

en-verb

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

halts (present singular third-person)
halting (participle present)
halted (participle past)
halted (past)

From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-Germanic *haltōną, related to *haltaz. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

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halt

And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.

The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.

отлагам

to stop either temporarily or permanently

встать

как вко́панный

From Middle French halt, from early modern German halt (“stop!”), imperative of halten (“to hold, to stop”). More at hold.


halt

The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.

Without any halt they marched.

1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.

1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:

A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.

On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:

(rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.


halt

It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell […]

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:

Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 14:21:

en-adj

halt (comparative more halt, superlative most halt)

more halt (comparative)
most halt (superlative)

From Middle English halt, from Old English healt, from Proto-West Germanic *halt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“halt, lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *kol-d-, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to beat, strike, cut, slash”). Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.


halt

Halts were normally unstaffed, tickets being sold on the train.

2024 June 10, Wikipedia contributors, “Train station”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

(British, Ireland) A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.


halt

From the verb halten (“to hold; to stop”).


halt

→ Dutch: halt

→ Italian: alt

→ Spanish: alto

→ Portuguese: alto

→ Swedish: halt

→ Middle French: halt

French: halte

→ Dutch: halte

→ Greek: αλτ (alt)

→ English: halt


halt

Er ist halt ein Idiot.

Dann müssen wir halt härter arbeiten.

(colloquial, modal particle) Indicating that something is generally known, or cannot be changed, or the like; often untranslatable; so, just, simply, indeed, well

→ Czech: holt

From Middle High German halt, pertaining to Old High German halto (“soon, fast”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haldiz, an adverbial comparative like *batiz.


halt

third-person singular indicative past indefinite of hal

hal (“to die”) + -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)


halt

halt (nominative singular)
haltak (nominative plural)
haltat (accusative singular)
haltakat (accusative plural)
haltnak (dative singular)
haltaknak (dative plural)
halttal (instrumental singular)
haltakkal (instrumental plural)
haltért (causal-final singular)
haltakért (causal-final plural)
halttá (singular translative)
haltakká (plural translative)
haltig (singular terminative)
haltakig (plural terminative)
haltként (essive-formal singular)
haltakként (essive-formal plural)
haltban (inessive singular)
haltakban (inessive plural)
halton (singular superessive)
haltakon (plural superessive)
haltnál (adessive singular)
haltaknál (adessive plural)
haltba (illative singular)
haltakba (illative plural)
haltra (singular sublative)
haltakra (plural sublative)
halthoz (allative singular)
haltakhoz (allative plural)
haltból (elative singular)
haltakból (elative plural)
haltról (delative singular)
haltakról (delative plural)
halttól (ablative singular)
haltaktól (ablative plural)
halté (singular)
haltaké (plural)
haltéi (singular)
haltakéi (plural)


halt

halt (indefinite singular)
halte (definite plural singular)
haltare (comparative)
haltast (indefinite superlative)
haltaste (definite superlative)

From Old Norse haltr, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz.


halt

head

halt (definite singular and plural halte)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


halt

head

halt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular halte)

halte (feminine nominative oblique singular)

From a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).


halt

Middle French: hault

French: haut


halt

strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of haltr


halt

second-person singular imperative active of halda


halt

halt (masculine nominative singular)
haltu (feminine nominative singular)
halt (neuter nominative singular)
haltanā (accusative masculine singular)
haltā (accusative feminine singular)
halt (accusative neuter singular)
haltas (genitive masculine singular)
halteʀā (feminine genitive singular)
haltas (genitive neuter singular)
haltumē (dative masculine singular)
halteʀē (dative feminine singular)
haltumē (dative neuter singular)
haltu (instrumental masculine singular)
halteʀu (feminine instrumental singular)
haltu (instrumental neuter singular)
haltē (masculine nominative plural)
haltō (feminine nominative plural)
haltu (neuter nominative plural)
haltā (accusative masculine plural)
haltā (accusative feminine plural)
haltu (accusative neuter plural)
halteʀō (genitive masculine plural)
halteʀō (feminine genitive plural)
halteʀō (genitive neuter plural)
haltēm (dative masculine plural)
haltum (dative masculine plural)
haltēm (dative feminine plural)
haltum (dative feminine plural)
haltēm (dative neuter plural)
haltum (dative neuter plural)
haltēm (instrumental masculine plural)
haltum (instrumental masculine plural)
haltēm (feminine instrumental plural)
haltum (feminine instrumental plural)
haltēm (instrumental neuter plural)
haltum (instrumental neuter plural)

Old English: halt, healt

Middle English: halt

Scots: halt

English: halt

Old Frisian: halt

North Frisian: halt

Old Saxon: halt

Middle Low German: halt

Low German: halt

Old Dutch: *halt

Middle Dutch: hout, halt

Old High German: halz

Middle High German: halz


halt

alkoholhalt

fetthalt

sanningshalt

en hög halt av alkohol i blodet

a high concentration of alcohol in the blood

content, level (relative amount of something, in a mixture or the like)

Hären gjorde halt

stopping (during a march, or more generally)

halt (indefinite nominative singular)
halts (genitive indefinite singular)
halten (definite nominative singular)
haltens (definite genitive singular)
halter (indefinite nominative plural)
halters (genitive indefinite plural)
halterna (definite nominative plural)
halternas (definite genitive plural)


halt

halt! (stop!) (during a march, or more generally)


halt

halt (indefinite positive)
halt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
halta (indefinite plural positive)
halte (archaic indefinite masculine plural positive)
halte (definite masculine positive singular)
halta (definite positive)