to keep.subj.pst.3sg

healdan

V

HOLD, keep, grasp, retain, restrain, confine, contain

Source: Ringe 2014:184, https://bosworthtoller.com/18398

Attested in Ætherlwold's Reforms, Ælfric's Lives of Saints - Saint Eugenia (heolde)

originates from: PWGmc *haldan "to keep, to protect" (haldan > hældan > healdan) through pwgmc-to-oe

(source: Ringe 2014:184)

Inflected forms

heolde "to keep.subj.pst.3sg" (oe-subj-past-3sg)

Paradigms