heald
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
heald (plural healds)
Verb[edit]
heald (third-person singular simple present healds, present participle healding, simple past and past participle healded)
- Alternative form of hield
Anagrams[edit]
Old English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From or related to Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“bent, inclined”). Distantly related to Etymology 2 below.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
heald n
Declension[edit]
Declension of heald (strong a-stem)
Derived terms[edit]
- ġeheald n (“holding, observing, keeper, guardian”)
- healdnes f (“holding, keeping, observance”)
- healdsum (“protective”)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-West Germanic *halþ, from Proto-Germanic *halþaz.
Adjective[edit]
heald
Declension[edit]
Declension of heald — Strong
Declension of heald — Weak
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “heald”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “heald”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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