husl

== Old English == === Alternative forms === hūsel, hūsul === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *hunsl, from Proto-Germanic *hunslą (“offering, sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”). Cognate with Old Norse húsl (“Eucharist”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌻 (hunsl, “offering, sacrifice”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy, sacred”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xuːsl/, [huːzl] === Noun === hūsl n (Christianity) the Eucharist late 10th century, Ælfric, "Pastoral Letter for Wulfsige" (religion, originally) offering, sacrifice ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== hūslian (“to administer the sacrament”) ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: housel, hosel, hosil, hosol, housil, housul, housyl, husel, husell, husul (Early Middle English), hoosyl, hosill, housyll, howsel, howsell, howsill (Late Middle English)English: housel (archaic)Scots: hoozle, ouzle (obsolete) === References === (Eucharist): Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “husl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (sacrifice): Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “husl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.