halt

• vi. 立ち止まる；躊躇する；ためらう
• n. 止まる；静止する；休む
• vt. 止まらせる；静止させる
• n. （ドイツ語、フィンランド語）Halt.

古フランス語のhalte「止まる」から。語源的にはholdと同じ。

PIE*kelの「刻む、切る」から、語源的にはhalf、cleaveと同じ、つまり半分に切る、派生的にはlimp、ためらう。

halt

halt: English has two words halt. By far the older, meaning ‘lame’ [OE], has virtually died out as a living part of English vocabulary except in the verbal derivative halting ‘stopping and starting uncertainly’. It came from a prehistoric Germanic *khaltaz, which also produced Swedish and Danish halt ‘Jame’. Halt ‘stop’ [17], originally a noun, comes from German halt, which began life as the imperative form of the verb halten ‘hold, stop’ (a relative of English hold).
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halt (n.)

"a stop, a halting," 1590s, from French halte (16c.) or Italian alto, ultimately from German Halt, imperative from Old High German halten "to hold" (see hold (v.)). A German military command borrowed into the Romanic languages 16c.

halt (adj.)

"lame," in Old English lemphalt "limping," from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian halt, Old Norse haltr, Old High German halz, Gothic halts "lame"), from PIE *keld-, from root *kel- "to strike, cut," with derivatives meaning "something broken or cut off" (cognates: Russian koldyka "lame," Greek kolobos "broken, curtailed"). The noun meaning "one who limps; the lame collectively" is from c. 1200.

halt (v.2)

"to walk unsteadily, move with a limping gait," early 14c., from Old English haltian (Anglian), healtian (West Saxon), "to limp, be lame; to hesitate," from Proto-Germanic *halton (cognates: Old Saxon halton, Middle Dutch halten, Old High German halzen), derivative verb from the source of halt (adj.). Figurative use from early 15c. Related: Halted; halting.

halt (v.1)

"make a halt," 1650s, from halt (n.). As a command word, attested from 1796. Related: Halted; halting.

1. The elevator creaked to a halt at the ground floor.

エレベーターがガチャンと1階に止まった。

2.He criticised the government for failing to halt economic decline.

彼は政府が経済の落ち込みを止められなかったと批判した。

3.Operating systems can be brought to a halt by a Trojan Horse.

オペレーティングシステムはトロイの木馬ウイルスの攻撃によって中止される可能性があります。

4.He came to a halt at a crossroads fifty yards further on.

彼は50ヤード先の交差点で止まった。

5.A black Mercedes screeched to a halt beside the helicopter.

ヘリコプターのそばで黒いメルセデスの乗用車がガチャンと止まった。