heald

heald (plural healds)

1. Alternative form of hield.
2. (weaving) heddle

heald (third-person singular simple present healds, present participle healding, simple past and past participle healded)

1. Alternative form of hield.

• Dahle, haled

From or related to Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“bent, inclined”). Distantly related to Etymology 2 below.

• IPA^(key): /xæ͜ɑld/, [hæ͜ɑɫd]

heald n

1. hold, guardianship, protection, rule

Strong a-stem:

• ġeheald n (“holding, observing, keeper, guardian”)
• healdnes f (“holding, keeping, observance”)
• healdsum (“protective”)

From Proto-West Germanic *halþ, from Proto-Germanic *halþaz.

heald

1. bent, inclined

• -heald

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