different between halsed vs halsen

English

Verb

halsed

1. simple past tense and past participle of halse

Anagrams

• Dahles, Healds, Shadle, adshel, healds, lashed, shaled

Middle English

Verb

halsed

1. simple past of halsen (“to embrace, caress”)
2. simple past/past participle of halsen (“to beseech”)

Alternative forms

• (simple past): hawsid, halyst
• (past participle): ihalset

English

Alternative forms

• halson, halzen, hazon

Etymology

From halse (“to salute, beseech”) +? -en. Related to Middle High German heilsen (“to predict”). More at halse.

Verb

halsen (third-person singular simple present halsens, present participle halsening, simple past and past participle halsened)

1. (transitive) To predict; promise.
2. (intransitive) To promise; bode; bid (fair or ill).

Derived terms

• halseny

Anagrams

• Hanels, Hansel, Lehans, Leshan, hansel, lanseh

Danish

Noun

halsen c

1. definite singular of hals

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?halzn?/

Verb

halsen (weak, third-person singular present halst, past tense halste, past participle gehalst, auxiliary haben)

1. (nautical) to jib (shift or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc.)

Conjugation

Middle English

Etymology 1

hals (“neck”) +? -en

Verb

halsen (simple past halsed or hawsid)

1. to embrace, caress

Alternative forms

• hals, halse, hallesyn

Descendants

• English: halse
• Scots: hause

References

• “halsen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?lsian and healsian, from Proto-Germanic *hailis?n? (“to greet; to beseech”).

Verb

halsen (simple past halsed or halyst, past participle halsed or ihalset)

1. to beseech

Alternative forms

• hals, halse, halsien, halsi, halsi?e, halsow

Derived terms

• halsnen

Descendants

• English: halse
• Scots: hals, halse

References

• “halsen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

halsen

1. Alternative form of halsnen

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

halsen m

1. definite singular of hals

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

halsen m

1. definite singular of hals

Swedish

Noun

halsen

1. definite singular of hals