welt

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /wɛlt/ Rhymes: -ɛlt === Etymology 1 === From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta. ==== Verb ==== welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted) (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === First use appears c. 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800. ==== Noun ==== welt (plural welts) A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow. Synonyms: wheal, weal A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry). 1623, André Favyn, The theater of honour and knight-hood […] , book 10: [...] round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / [...] 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways": Therefore this may be taken for an Observation, that an edg, or hem, or welt, only runs on the sides of the Ordinary; but the Border invirons, or goeth clear round the same, […] (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it. 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways": […] surmounted of another Azure: but in my Judgment, it rather represents a Hem, or Welt of a Belt, or an Edg of Silver, than two Belts one upon another; which the Bend properly signifie […] In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed. (obsolete, shoemaking) A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted) (transitive) To cause to have welts; to beat. (transitive) To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce. ===== Translations ===== ==== Further reading ==== (heraldry): === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted) (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy. ===== Related terms ===== wilt == Dutch == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛlt === Verb === welt inflection of wellen: second/third-person singular present indicative (archaic) plural imperative == Middle English == === Noun === welt alternative form of welthe == Middle High German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈwɛlt/ === Noun === wëlt f alternative form of wërlt (“world”) ==== Declension ====