"onhold" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: onholds [present, singular, third-person], onholding [participle, present], onheld [past], onheld [participle, past], onholden [participle, past]
Etymology: From Middle English anhealden (“to retain”), from Old English onhealdan, anhealdan (“to hold, keep”), equivalent to on- + hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian anhoolde (“to stop, persist”), West Frisian oanhâlde (“to apprehend, arrest, detain”), Dutch aanhouden (“to persist, continue, retain”) and onthouden (“to withhold, retain”), German anhalten (“to stop, last, persist”) and enthalten (“to contain, include”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|anhealden|t=to retain}} Middle English anhealden (“to retain”), {{inh|en|ang|onhealdan}} Old English onhealdan, {{m|ang|anhealdan|t=to hold, keep}} anhealdan (“to hold, keep”), {{prefix|en|on|hold}} on- + hold, {{cog|stq|anhoolde|t=to stop, persist}} Saterland Frisian anhoolde (“to stop, persist”), {{cog|fy|oanhâlde|t=to apprehend, arrest, detain}} West Frisian oanhâlde (“to apprehend, arrest, detain”), {{cog|nl|aanhouden|t=to persist, continue, retain}} Dutch aanhouden (“to persist, continue, retain”), {{m|nl|onthouden|t=to withhold, retain}} onthouden (“to withhold, retain”), {{cog|de|anhalten|t=to stop, last, persist}} German anhalten (“to stop, last, persist”), {{m|de|enthalten|t=to contain, include}} enthalten (“to contain, include”) Head templates: {{en-verb|onholds|onholding|onheld|past_ptc2=onholden}} onhold (third-person singular simple present onholds, present participle onholding, simple past onheld, past participle onheld or onholden)
  1. (transitive, rare) To hold on (to). Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-onhold-en-verb-OuDmKJi8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with on- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with on-: 47 53
  2. (intransitive, rare) To hold on. Tags: intransitive, rare
    Sense id: en-onhold-en-verb-5pnsgeBB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with on- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with on-: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: onholding

Inflected forms

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