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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
heild f (genitive singular heildar, nominative plural heildir)
- whole, entirety
Declension
Declension of heild (feminine)
- heill (“whole, complete; healthy”)
Middle Scots
Etymology
From Early Scots helen, helien, from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”, strong verb) and helian (“to conceal, cover, hide”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *helan, from Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to conceal, stash, receive stolen goods”) and Proto-Germanic *haljaną (“to hull, conceal”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide”).
Verb
heild
- to cover, conceal
Further reading
- “held(e, heil, v.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.