heild

== Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /heilt/ Rhymes: -eilt === Noun === heild f (genitive singular heildar, nominative plural heildir) whole, entirety ==== Declension ==== ==== 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 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.