Where does “helt” come from?

helt (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-West Germanic haliþ, from Proto-Germanic haliþaz — hero.

helt (Old Dutch): man

Definitions

  1. man

Ancestry of “helt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanichaliþhero
2Proto-Germanichaliþazhero

Words derived from “helt”

Every word from Proto-Germanic haliþaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic haliþ →
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