allt

• ald (alternative spelling)
• att (common variant; often both forms alongside in the same dialect)

From all (“all”) with a fossiled neuter ending -t. Compare Dutch al.

• IPA^(key): /alt/
• Homophone: alt

allt

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) already

   Ich hann allt drissig Minutte op dich jewaat!

   I’ve already waited for you for thirty minutes!

• schun

allt

1. everything, neuter of allur

allt

1. inflection of allur:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular

allt

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of allr

From Old Irish alt (“shore, cliff”). Cognates in the Celtic languages include Irish alt (“height, glenside, cliff”), Cornish als (“cliff”), and Breton aot (“shore”). MacBain suggests the Scottish Gaelic form and meaning has a Pictish origin.

IPA^(key): /auɫ̪t/

allt m (genitive singular uillt, plural uillt)

1. steep-sided stream

   Tha an t-allt a' ruith. ― The stream is flowing.

• alltan (“burn, brook, stream”)
• leth-allt (“stream with one steep side, not two”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “allt”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “allt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

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allt

1. everything, all

   Allt gick åt helvete.

   Everything went terrible.

   (literally, “Everything went to hell.”)

• alla (“everyone”)

allt

1. neuter singular of all

   Har du druckit upp allt vatten?

   Have you drunk up all (of the) water?

• all and allt are the words to use about uncountable mass nouns (of common and neuter gender, respectively) and alla is used about countable in the plural.

allt (not comparable)

1. more and more

• allt in Svensk ordbok.

• tall

From Middle Welsh allt, from Proto-Celtic *altos (compare Middle Irish alt (“height, cliff”), Irish ailt (“steep-sided ravine”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aːɬd/, [aːɬt]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /aɬd/, [aɬt]
• Rhymes: -aɬd

allt f (plural elltydd or aillt)

1. hillside, slope
2. wood, small forest