different between holde vs holden

English

Noun

holde

1. Archaic spelling of hold.

Verb

holde

1. Archaic spelling of hold.

Anagrams

• Hodel, d-hole, dhole, holed

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldan?, cognate with Swedish hålla, English hold, German halten, Dutch houden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?l?]

Verb

holde (imperative hold, infinitive at holde, present tense holder, past tense holdt, perfect tense har holdt)

1. to hold
2. to keep
3. to last
4. to stop

Inflection

Further reading

• “holde” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “holde,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

holde

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of hollen

German

Adjective

holde

1. inflection of hold:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Middle English

Adjective

holde

1. inflection of hold:
   1. plural
   2. adverbial

Noun

holde

1. fidelity

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldan?.

Verb

holde (imperative hold, present tense holder, passive holdes, simple past and past participle holdt, present participle holdende)

1. to hold
2. to tolerate, to withstand
3. to keep

   å holde vakt - to keep watch

   å holde varmen - to keep warm

4. to be doing + på

Derived terms

References

• “holde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ld?n

Verb

holden

1. (archaic) past participle of hold
   • Holland

     Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

Anagrams

• held on, hondel

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish haldæn, from Old Norse haldinn, = the past participle of halda (“to hold”). Compare German gehalten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?l?n]

Adjective

holden (neuter holdent, plural and definite singular attributive holdne)

1. well-to-do, prosperous

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ld?n

Verb

holden

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of hollen

Dutch Low Saxon

Verb

holden

1. to hold

German

Adjective

holden

1. inflection of hold:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• halden, halde

Etymology

From Old English healdan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??ld?n/

Verb

holden

1. to hold
2. to consider

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: hold
  • Northumbrian: hauld, haad
• Scots: hald, hauld, haud, had
• Yola: houle

References

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