holian

Old English edit

From Proto-West Germanic *holōn, related to Old English holh, hol. Cognate with Old High German holōn (“to dig out, excavate”).

holian

to hollow something out, to make something hollow
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.
  Hī ðā hwæthwega holodon and ðǣrrihte ðæt wæter swā genihtsumlīce ūt flēow ðæt hit arn strēamrynes of ðam munte.
  to make a hole in something
to make a hole; dig

Conjugation of holian (weak class 2)

hōlian

to oppress
to slander
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.
  Ne sele ðū mē hōliendum mē.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation of hōlian (weak class 2)

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “holian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.