unhal
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *unhailaz (“not whole, unhealthy”), equivalent to un- + hāl. Cognate with Old High German unheil, Old Norse úheill, Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (unhails).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unhāl
- in bad health, sick, weak, ill, infirm, unhealthy, unsound
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 1:32
- hī brōhton tō him ealle þā unhālan and þā ðe wōde wǣron
- they brought to him all the sick and those that were crazy
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 1:32
Declension
[edit]Declension of unhāl — Strong
Declension of unhāl — Weak
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “unhál”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.