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Wright's OE grammar
§80; §503;
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to prevent something becoming known
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  • Hí lǽrdon hira synna, and hí hí nánwuht ne hǽlon

    (absconderunt),

    • Past. 427, 29
      • .

  • Strengre is ꝥ ic morðor hele, scyle mánswara lifian,

    • Cri 193,
with dat.
of person to whom something is not made known:
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  • Míne scylde ic dyde þé cúðe, and míne unrihtwísnysse ic þé ne hæl,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 426, 21
      • .

  • Gif ðú hyt ongitten hæbbe, ne hel hyt mé,

    • Solil. H. 53, 7
      • .

  • Ne mæg ic ðé náuht helan þæs þe ic wát,

    • Bt. 42
      • ;
    • F. 256, 13
      • :
    • Gen. 1583
      • :
    • El. 703
      • .

  • Sió heá lár is betere manegum monnum tó helanne, and feáwum tó secganne,

    • Past. 459, 9
      • .
with preps,
to conceal from (wiþ, fram):
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  • Ðonne hí he[o]lað

    (the o is written above the line)

    from monnum

    (hominibiis occultando)

    ðæt hí secggan scoldon, and secgað ðæt hí he[o]lan scoldon,

    • Past. 449, 5.

  • Ne hel ic

    (celavi)

    mildheortnisse ðíne from gesomnunge micelre.

    • Ps. Srt. 39, II
      • .

  • Þéh þe hé hit fæste wid þá senatus hǽle,

    • Ors. 4, 10
      • ;
    • S. 196, 16
      • .
to keep silence about
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  • Ic ne mæg leng helan be þám lífes treó,

    • El. 706
      • .
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v. ge-helan; helian.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “helan.” 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/52183.

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