beholde

beholde (third-person singular simple present beholdes, present participle beholding, simple past behelde, past participle behelde or beholden)

1. Obsolete spelling of behold.

Equivalent to be- +‎ holde (“to hold”). After Middle Low German beholden, from Old Saxon bihaldan.

• IPA^(key): [b̥eˈhʌlˀə]

beholde (imperative behold, infinitive at beholde, present tense beholder, past tense beholdt, perfect tense har beholdt)

1. keep, retain, maintain

be- +‎ holde, after Middle Low German beholden, from Old Saxon bihaldan.

beholde (imperative behold, present tense beholder, passive beholdes, simple past and past participle beholdt, present participle beholdende)

1. to keep, retain

• behalda, behalde (Nynorsk)

• “beholde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.