healh

noun [ masculine ]

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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

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Se westra eásthealh,
On ðone west halh,
Óþ cyninges healh, i. 257, 33.
On Scottes healh; of ðam heale, vi. 2, 2.
In Streónes halh; of ðam hale,
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.
Tó hǽþhalan; of hǽþhalan, iii. 77, 13.
Streónes halh,
On Streónes heale,

Etymology

[Strenaeshalch quod interpretatur Sinus fari, Bd. 3, 25; S. 132, 7.]

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v. alh eást-healh hal heal healhiht.

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Bosworth, Joseph. “healh.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/18422.

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