hasla

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hasla

1. inflection of hasnout:
   1. feminine singular past active participle
   2. neuter plural past active participle

• hasle (e- and split infinitives)

Semi-learned borrowing from Old Norse hasla.

hasla (present tense haslar, past tense hasla, past participle hasla, passive infinitive haslast, present participle haslande, imperative hasla/hasl)

1. (historical) to mark the limits of a fighting area by use of hazel staves

• “hasla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• halas, halsa

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hasla f (genitive hǫslu)

1. a pole or stake made of hazelwood

hasla

1. to mark out by hazelwood poles
2. to challenge to a pitched battle or duel

• Sense two comes from sense one since the duel would traditionally take place in an enclosure demarcated with stakes or poles made of hazelwood.

• → Norwegian Nynorsk: hasla, hasle (e- and split infinitives)

hasla

1. genitive plural indefinite of hasl m

• “hasla”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press