Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A young male horse or similar young male equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old. · A young crane (bird). · A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. · A professional cricketer during his first season.
To horse; to get with young. · To befool. · To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. · To haze (a new recruit), as by charging a new juryman a "fine" to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, piglet, boy, lad”) / Swedish kulting (“piglet”). Related to child.
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This page abbreviates 4 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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