smolt

Probably an alteration of smelt, due to smolt (“smooth”). See above.

• IPA^(key): /smoʊlt/, /smɒlt/

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• Rhymes: -oʊlt, -ɒlt

smolt (plural smolts)

1. A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.

• presmolt, smoltification

• molts

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smolt

1. singular past indicative of smelten

smolt m (plural smolts)

1. smolt (salmon)

From English smolt.

smolt m (definite singular smolten, indefinite plural smoltar, definite plural smoltane)

1. a smolt (young salmon)

smolt n (definite singular smoltet, indefinite plural smolt, definite plural smolta)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of smult

• “smolt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /smolt/, [smoɫt]

smolt

1. serene, quiet, peaceful

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “smolt”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.