heild

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heilt/
• Rhymes: -eilt

Noun

heild f (genitive singular heildar, nominative plural heildir)

1. whole, entirety

Declension

Declension of heild (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	heild	heildin	heildir	heildirnar
accusative	heild	heildina	heildir	heildirnar
dative	heild	heildinni	heildum	heildunum
genitive	heildar	heildarinnar	heilda	heildanna

Related terms

• heill (“whole, complete; healthy”)

Middle Scots

Alternative forms

• held

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

1. 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[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.