helde

• Audio:

  (file)

helde

1. inflection of hellen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

Inherited from Old English hylde, hielde, from Proto-West Germanic *halþijā, from Proto-Germanic *halþijǭ.

• held, hylde
• hulde (early Southwest Midlands)

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːld(ə)/, /ˈhɛːld(ə)/

helde (plural heldes or helden)

1. incline, slope
2. peak, hill

• Early Modern English: hield, heild
• Middle Scots: heild

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

Inherited from Old English hyldu, held, from Proto-West Germanic *hulþī, from Proto-Germanic *hulþį̄.

• held, ylde

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːld(ə)/

helde (uncountable) (poetic)

1. favour, grace, beneficence
2. loyalty, allegiance, homage

• “hē̆ld(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English helde, of unknown origin.

• helda (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːld(ə)/

helde (uncountable)

1. (rare) tansy (plants of the genus Tanacetum)

   Synonym: tanesie (more common)

• “hē̆ld(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• held — rare

Uncertain.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈxel.de/, [ˈheɫ.de]

helde f

1. tansy (plants of the genus Tanacetum)^[2]
2. (possibly) estragon (Artemisia dracunculus)^[3]

Weak n-stem:

• Middle English: helde