hold – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of hold

Noun: hold
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularhold
Pluralhold

Genitive

Singularholdes
Pluralholda

Dative

Singularholde
Pluralholdum

Accusative

Singularhold
Pluralhold

Sample Sentences

  • Swā swā grǣdiġe ræmmas ðār ðār hī hold ġesēoþ. (Like greedy ravens when they see a corpse.)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *huldą, from Proto-Indo-European *kol-, *kwol-. Cognates include Old Norse hold (“flesh”) (Icelandic hold, Swedish hull), and (from Indo-European) Old Irish colainn, Welsh celain. See: Icelandic Nouns 'hold', Swedish Nouns 'hull'.

Verbs referencing "hold"

Middle English Nouns hold.

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