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Middle English
Adjective
halge
- (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of holy (sacred)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hailagā.
Pronunciation
Noun
hālġe f
- holy woman, (female) saint
- Cynewulf, "Juliana"
Sēo hālġe stōd unġewemde wlite. Næs hire feax ne fell fȳre ġemǣled.- The saint stood with unblemished beauty. Neither her hair nor her skin were marked by the fire.
Usage notes
- The table below shows the inherited distribution of g, with palatalization between original front vowels. At the time palatalization occurred, the nominative singular would been *hālægǣ , with a medial *æ that was later syncopated creating the environment for palatalization. Meanwhile, the genitive plural would have been *hālægōnā —or possibly *hālæganā , with the short *a already leveled in from the masculine n-stem declension. In either case, the genitive plural would not have been palatalized.
Declension
Declension of halge (weak)
Coordinate terms
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 154