"hol" meaning in Old English

See hol in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /xol/, [hol]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hollow space, cavity”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*hol||hollow space, cavity}} Proto-West Germanic *hol (“hollow space, cavity”) Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=n|g2=|g3=|head=hol|head2=|sort=}} hol n, {{ang-noun|n|head=hol}} hol n Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-n|hol|short=1}}, {{ang-decl-noun|hol|holu|hol|holu|holes|hola|hole|holum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], hol [nominative, singular], holu [nominative, plural], hol [accusative, singular], holu [accusative, plural], holes [genitive, singular], hola [genitive, plural], hole [dative, singular], holum [dative, plural], hola [alternative]
  1. hole Tags: neuter Derived forms: holian
    Sense id: en-hol-ang-noun-Oe5FUZcH
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /xoːl/, [hoːl]
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *hōlą (“vain speech, slander, calumny”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁l-, *keh₁l- (“to beguile, deceive”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*hōlą||vain speech, slander, calumny}} Proto-Germanic *hōlą (“vain speech, slander, calumny”), {{der|ang|ine-pro|*ḱeh₁l-}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₁l- Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=n|g2=|g3=|head=hōl|head2=|sort=}} hōl n, {{ang-noun|n|head=hōl}} hōl n Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-n|hōl}}, {{ang-decl-noun|hōl|hōl|hōl|hōl|hōles|hōla|hōle|hōlum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: hōl [canonical, neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], hōl [nominative, singular], hōl [nominative, plural], hōl [accusative, singular], hōl [accusative, plural], hōles [genitive, singular], hōla [genitive, plural], hōle [dative, singular], hōlum [dative, plural]
  1. calumny; slander Related terms: hēlan, hōlian
    Sense id: en-hol-ang-noun-05dmdLbx Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints, quoting Matthew 8:20",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.