holian

From Proto-West Germanic *holōn, related to Old English holh, hol. Cognate with Old High German holōn (“to dig out, excavate”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxo.li.ɑn/,

holian

1. to hollow something out, to make something hollow
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.

     Hī ðā hwæthwega holodon and ðǣrrihte ðæt wæter swā genihtsumlīce ūt flēow ðæt hit arn strēamrynes of ðam munte.

     to make a hole in something

2. to make a hole; dig

• āholian
• ġeholian
• þurhholian

From Proto-West Germanic *hōlōn, from Proto-Germanic *hōlōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoː.li.ɑn/,

hōlian

1. to oppress
2. to slander
   • 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.

     Ne sele ðū mē hōliendum mē.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• hōl
• hōltihte
• hōlunga
• hēlan

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “holian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.