gewolt

Etymology
From, from. The presence of the prefix is a regional variation going back to Old Saxon.

Related to the verb from the. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * Stem vowel: ô²
 * or
 * While the combination /ld/ originally lengthened the vowel in Old Saxon, in several Middle Low German dialects it was treated like a geminate, or had actually become /lː/, and in turn shortened long vowels occurring before it. Further, the vowel was shortened before /lt/ from final obstruent devoicing. Dialects then often begun to apply the more common vowel length across all forms.

Noun

 * 1) power, capacity to impose one's will
 * 2) violence