different between holwe vs holde

Middle English

Etymology 1

From holgh (“hollow”, noun), influenced by the meaning of hol, hole (“hollow, concave”, adjective).

Adjective

holwe

1. hollow
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue: The Clerk's Tale, ll. 290–291:

Alternative forms

• holewe, holow, holowe, holo, holu, holuo, holw, holgh, hol?, hol?e, holh, holeh, holeuh, hologh, hologhe, holo?e, holough, holou?, holou?e, holowh, holugh, holu?, holu?e, holwgh, holw?, holwh

Descendants

• English: hollow
• Scots: hallae

References

• “holwe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

holwe (plural holwes)

1. Alternative form of holgh

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.