"hold" meaning in Middle English

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Adjective

Etymology: From Old English hold, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz, a variant on a root meaning ‘lean, incline’ (compare Old English heald, hieldan). Cognates include Old Frisian hold, Old Saxon hold, Old High German hold (German hold), Old Norse hollr (Danish huld, Swedish huld), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌸𐍃 (hulþs). Etymology templates: {{der|enm|ang|hold}} Old English hold, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*hulþaz}} Proto-Germanic *hulþaz, {{cog|ang|heald}} Old English heald, {{m|ang|hieldan}} hieldan, {{cog|ofs|hold}} Old Frisian hold, {{cog|osx|hold}} Old Saxon hold, {{cog|goh|hold}} Old High German hold, {{cog|de|hold}} German hold, {{cog|non|hollr}} Old Norse hollr, {{cog|da|huld}} Danish huld, {{cog|sv|huld}} Swedish huld, {{cog|got|𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌸𐍃}} Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌻𐌸𐍃 (hulþs) Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective}} hold
  1. friendly, faithful
    Sense id: en-hold-enm-adj-GFdTp~9s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: From Old English hold, 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. Etymology templates: {{der|enm|ang|hold}} Old English hold, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*huldą}} Proto-Germanic *huldą, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*kol-}} Proto-Indo-European *kol-, {{m|ine-pro|*kwol-}} *kwol-, {{cog|non|hold||flesh}} Old Norse hold (“flesh”), {{cog|is|hold}} Icelandic hold, {{cog|sv|hull}} Swedish hull, {{cog|sga|colainn}} Old Irish colainn, {{cog|cy|celain}} Welsh celain Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} hold
  1. carcass, flesh Related terms: holdeste, unhold, holdelike, holdoþ
    Sense id: en-hold-enm-noun-nITV8LFb Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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