healdan

• haldan — Anglian

From Proto-West Germanic *haldan, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to watch, look after”).

Cognate with Old Frisian halda (West Frisian hâlde), Old Saxon haldan (Low German holen), Old Dutch haldan (Dutch houden), Old High German haltan (German halten), Old Norse halda (Swedish hålla, Danish holde), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌽 (haldan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxæ͜ɑl.dɑn/, [ˈhæ͜ɑɫ.dɑn]

healdan (West Saxon)

1. to keep watch over (cattle etc.)
2. to hold fast, to grasp
3. to contain
4. to possess
5. to keep, hold, preserve something in a specific position or state
6. to keep to, maintain, observe a custom or habit
7. (intransitive) to maintain one’s position against an enemy

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• Middle English: holden, halden, halde, halt
  • English: hold
  • Geordie English: ha'd
  • Scots: hald, hauld, haud, had
  • Yola: houle

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