heald
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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