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hult

1. inflection of hullen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

hult

1. alternative form of hilte (“hilt”)

hult

1. alternative form of huldeþ: third-person singular present indicative of hilden (“to skin”)

hult

1. alternative form of held: simple past of holden (“to hold”)

hult

1. neuter singular of hul

Inherited from Old Swedish hult, from Old Norse holt (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *hultą (“wood”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with English holt and German Holz. First attested in 1210–1216^[1].^[2]

hult c

1. (obsolete) wood, forest (of any size); (or strictly) coppice

   Synonym: skog

   • 1882, Sigfrid Wieselgren, Ur barnens verld II, page 127:

     […] ; svalorna sågos ännu i hvinande fart genomströfva den klara luften och några skogsdufvor kuttrade än bland träden i gårdens södra hult.

     […] ; the swallows were yet seen sweeping through the clear air with a whirring flight, and some wood-pigeons still cooed among the trees in the farm’s southern copse.

• Although obsolete in modern Swedish and unfamiliar to most speakers, the term survives in a number of placenames.

hult

1. indefinite neuter singular of huld

• hult in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)