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Icelandic
Etymology
From að- + hald.
Noun
aðhald n (genitive singular aðhalds, no plural)
- support, assistance
- Synonym: stuðningur
- supervision, restraint, control
- Synonym: taumhald
2000, Gunnar G. Schram, Ísland á Nýrri Öld, University of Iceland Press, →ISBN, page 147:Aðhald og eftirlit með framkvæmdarvaldi og stjórnsýslunni hefur að ýmsu leyti verið styrkt í formi og framkvæmd.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- thrift, economizing, the act of saving money
- Synonym: sparnaður
- slimming
- Synonym: megrun
Declension
Declension of
aðhald (
sg-only neuter, based on hald)
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