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halse

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See also:HalseandHälse

Cognate withDutchhals(“neck, throat”),GermanHals(“neck, throat”),Norwegianhals(“neck, throat”),Swedishhals(“neck, throat”),Latincollum(“neck”).

halse (pluralhalses)

(anatomy, archaic) Theneck; thethroat.
Well, as you know they used to hang folk by thehalse for horse theft.

FromMiddle Englishhalsen,halchen, fromOld English*halsian, *healsian(“to embrace”, literally“to fall upon the neck of”), fromheals(“neck”). See above. Cognate withOld Saxonhelsjen(“to embrace”),Old High Germanhalsōn (Germanhalsen(“to jibe”)),Icelandichálsa(“to embrace”).

halse (third-person singular simple presenthalses,present participlehalsing,simple past and past participlehalsed)

(dialectal) Tofall upon the neck of;hug;embrace.
- 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, inLe Morte Darthur, book VIII:
  soo the Kyng took a lytel hackney and but fewe felauship with him vntyl he came vnto sir Tristrams pauelione / and whanne syre Trystram sawe the Kynge / he ranne vnto hym and wold haue holden his styrope / But the kynge lepte from his hors lyghtly / and eytherhalsed other in armes
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FromMiddle Englishhalsen,halsien(“to beseech, adjure”), fromOld Englishhealsian,hālsian(“to entreat earnestly, beseech, implore”), fromProto-Germanic*hailisōną(“to greet”), fromProto-Indo-European*kailo-,*kailu-(“whole, safe”).

Cognate withMiddle High Germanheilsen(“to predict”),Swedishhälsa(“to greet”),Icelandicheilsa(“to salute”). More atwhole,hailse.

halse (third-person singular simple presenthalses,present participlehalsing,simple past and past participlehalsed)

FromMiddle Englishhals(“neck”), fromOld Norseháls(“neck, part of the forecastle or bow of a ship”), fromProto-Germanic*halsaz(“neck”). See Etymology 1. Cognate withDanishhals(“neck, tack”).