Where does “Helt” come from?

Helt (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German helt, from Old Saxon helith, from Proto-West Germanic haliþ, from Proto-Germanic haliþaz — hero.

Helt (Plautdietsch): hero

Definitions

  1. hero

Ancestry of “Helt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanhelthero
2Old Saxonhelithman; hero
3Proto-West Germanichaliþhero
4Proto-Germanichaliþazhero

Words derived from “Helt”

Every word from Proto-Germanic haliþaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic haliþ →Every word from Old Saxon helith →