halter

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• General-American: /ˈhɔltɚ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒltə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːltə/
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From Middle English halter, helter, helfter, from Old English hælfter, hælftre (“halter”), from Proto-West Germanic *halftrijā (“harness”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”), equivalent to half- + -ter. Cognate with Scots helter (“halter”), Dutch halfter, halster (“halter”), Low German halfter, helchter, halter (“halter”), German Halfter (“halter, holster”).

Etymology tree English halt Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English halter From halt + -er.

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kapistër — animal's headgear
• Southern Altai: нокто (nokto) — animal's headgear
• Arabic: رْسن (rsən) — animal's headgear
• Armenian: կապ (kap) — animal's headgear
• Armenian: սանձ (sanj) — animal's headgear
• Armenian: պախուրց (paxurcʻ) — animal's headgear
• Aromanian: cãpestru — animal's headgear
• Bulgarian: оглавник (oglavnik) — animal's headgear
• Catalan: cabestre — animal's headgear
• Catalan: ramal — animal's headgear
• Cherokee: ᎠᎴᏫᏍᏙᏗᎭ (alewisdodiha) — animal's headgear
• Cheyenne: hóxeeséeto'hamestôtse — animal's headgear
• Chinese Mandarin: 韁繩 /缰绳 (jiāngshéng) — animal's headgear
• Chinese Mandarin: 籠頭 /笼头 (lóngtóu) — animal's headgear
• Chinese Mandarin: 羈 /羁 (jī) — animal's headgear
• Czech: ohlávka — animal's headgear
• Dutch: halster — animal's headgear
• Esperanto: kolbrido — animal's headgear
• Estonian: päitsed — animal's headgear
• Estonian: päitserihm — animal's headgear
• Finnish: riimu — animal's headgear
• Finnish: tallipäitset — animal's headgear
• Finnish: päitset — animal's headgear
• French: licou — animal's headgear
• French: licol — animal's headgear
• French: chevêtre — animal's headgear
• Friulian: cjavece — animal's headgear
• Friulian: cjaviestri — animal's headgear
• Galician: trenla — animal's headgear
• Galician: xácoma — animal's headgear
• Galician: ronzal — animal's headgear
• Galician: ramal — animal's headgear
• Galician: cabresto — animal's headgear
• Galician: cabezada — animal's headgear
• German: Halfter — animal's headgear
• Greek: καπίστρι (kapístri) — animal's headgear
• Ancient Greek: φορβειά (phorbeiá) — animal's headgear
• Ancient Greek: στραγγάλη (strangálē) — animal's headgear
• Hebrew: אפסר (afsár) — animal's headgear
• Hungarian: kötőfék — animal's headgear
• Icelandic: múll — animal's headgear
• Ido: haltero — animal's headgear
• Ingrian: varukset — animal's headgear
• Irish: adhastar — animal's headgear
• Italian: capestro — animal's headgear
• Italian: cavezza — animal's headgear
• Japanese: 頭絡 (tōraku) — animal's headgear
• Japanese: 鼻綱 (hanazuna) — animal's headgear
• Japanese: 無口 (mukuchi) — animal's headgear
• Jeju: 녹대 (nokdae) — animal's headgear
• Kannada: ನೇಣು (nēṇu) — animal's headgear
• Khalaj: afsâr — animal's headgear
• Latin: capistrum — animal's headgear
• Macedonian: оглав (oglav) — animal's headgear
• Macedonian: огламник (oglamnik) — animal's headgear
• Malayalam: കൊലക്കയർ (kolakkayaṟ) — animal's headgear
• Māori: hāta — animal's headgear
• Mongolian: ногт (nogt) — animal's headgear
• Norwegian Bokmål: grime — animal's headgear
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grime — animal's headgear
• Occitan: capçana — animal's headgear
• Occitan: cabestre — animal's headgear
• Persian: پالهنگ — animal's headgear
• Polish: kantar — animal's headgear
• Portuguese: cabresto — animal's headgear
• Punjabi: ਧਲਿਆਰਾ (dhaliārā) — animal's headgear
• Romanian: căpăstru — animal's headgear
• Russian: узда́ (uzdá) — animal's headgear
• Russian: по́вод (póvod) — animal's headgear
• Russian: недоу́здок (nedoúzdok) — animal's headgear
• Scottish Gaelic: aghastar — animal's headgear
• Serbo-Croatian: у̀ла̄р — animal's headgear
• Serbo-Croatian: ùlār — animal's headgear
• Spanish: cabestro — animal's headgear
• Swedish: grimma — animal's headgear
• Telugu: పలుపు (palupu) — animal's headgear
• Turkish: yular — animal's headgear
• Ottoman Turkish: یولار (yular) — animal's headgear
• Ottoman Turkish: جلبور (cılbur) — animal's headgear
• Ottoman Turkish: افسار (efsâr) — animal's headgear
• Venetan: cavesa — animal's headgear
• Venetan: caveça — animal's headgear
• Venetan: cavezha — animal's headgear
• Vietnamese: dây — animal's headgear
• Vietnamese: thòng lọng — animal's headgear
• Walloon: cabasson — animal's headgear
• Welsh: penffrwyn — animal's headgear
• Welsh: cebystr — animal's headgear
• Yakut: сулар (sular) — animal's headgear