Etymograph

English

tholtan

Tholtan comes from Manx tholtan ‘a ruin of a house’.

  1. Manxmoderntholtan1‘a ruin of a house’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981tholtan1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English tholtan
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1981, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx: “You can be sitting in a tholtan down in…”.

Lineage

  1. ManxmoderntholtanWiktionary, English tholtan‘a ruin of a house’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1981tholtanWiktionary, English tholtan. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1981, The Times Reports of Debates in the Manx: “You can be sitting in a tholtan down in…”

Every English word from Manx tholtan

Today it means

noun An abandoned house; the ruin of a building which was once a home.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tholtan”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Manx tholtan / tholtan

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