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healh

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
healh, halh [in the declension the final h seems to be omitted before an inflection]; m. A word of doubtful meaning.
    Kemble, Cod. Dipl. iii. xxix.
translates it hall, probably originally a stone building.
    Leo, A. S. Names, p. 52,
takes it to be the same word as ealh. Somner gives healh-stán crusta, collyrida. In form it agrees with Latin calx.
Wright's OE grammar
§337;
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  • The following are some of the passages in which the word occurs

    Se westra eásthealh,

    • Cod. Dipl. iii. 19, 6
    • .
  • On ðone west halh,

    • 18, 25
    • .
  • Óþ cyninges healh,

    • i. 257, 33
    .
  • On Scottes healh; of ðam heale,

    • vi. 2, 2
    • .
  • In Streónes halh; of ðam hale,

    • 214, 25
    • .
  • On Hengestes healh; of Hengestes heale,

    • iii. 80, 20
    • .
  • In Titten halh,

    • 52, 11
    • .
    [The word seems to have the same force as haga in the same charter, as æt Batenhale and æt Batanhagan both occur.] Æt
    • Wreodanhale, i. 166, 18
    • .

  • On Rischale; of Rischale,

    • iii. 399, 18
    • .
  • On hwítan heal; of hwítan heale,

    • iii. 444, 4-5
    • .
  • On ða halas,

    • iii. 34, 13
    .
  • On fearnhealas; of fearnhealan,

    • iii. 81, 14-5
    .
  • On cotan healas,

    • v. 401, 34
    • .
  • hǽþhalan; of hǽþhalan,

    • iii. 77, 13
    • .
  • Streónes halh,

    • Bd. 4, 23
    • ;
    • S. 592, 37
    • .
  • On Streónes heale,

    • Chr. 680
    • ;
    • Erl. 40, 13
    • .
Etymology
[Strenaeshalch quod interpretatur Sinus fari,
  • Bd. 3, 25
  • ;
  • S. 132, 7
.]
Linked entries
v.  alh eást-healh hal heal healhiht heal.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • healh, n.