Olt

olt òlt Òlt ölt -olt -ölt English + County Etymology From en ro Olt. Proper noun en county c/Romania. en river c/Romania. Related terms Piatra-Olt Czech Pronunciation Proper noun m-an Oltová cs m Declension m.an.surname Further reading Hungarian hu: hu:+ megye Etymology hu Pronunciation hu Olt Proper noun hu proper noun hu Olt river c/Romania hu Olt county c/Romania Declension Olto o sgOlt j jai sg Derived terms hu olti hu Compound words Oltalsósebes Oltbogát Oltfelsősebes Olthévíz Olthidegkút Oltszakadát See also Romanian ro:Județul + thumb|ro Localizarea județului Olt în România Etymology ro. The name has been used since ancient times, with ancient recorded variants including: grc Aλoύτα (Strabo), grc Aλoύταζ (Ptolemaios), la Alutus (Tabula Peutingeriana). May have been an inherited word from local latin varieties under the influence of Dacian, where A > O sound shift is documented in city names such as Potaissa to Pataissa, Porolissum to Paralissum, etc. Direct inheritance from a Latin Aluta is unlikely to given it would have yielded *Arută. Alternatively, the word may have reached Romanian through a ro sla - intermediary resulting in A > O (similar to the change from la acetum to ro oțet). Pronunciation ro /olt/ ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Olt.wav Proper noun n Oltului ro river c/Romania Olt (the longest flowing exclusively through it) ro county c/Romania Olt Declension sg Derived terms ro Oltenia See also