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- Old English, from Anglo-Saxon. See holy, hallow. (Wiktionary)
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“Hy het 'n kierie in sy linkerhand gehad en wat vir my na' n halwe baksteen gelyk het in sy regterhand.”
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
“For ðare hali mihte ðe cariteð is icleped ic ðe beseche ⁊ bidde ðat tu ðese halwe {n} de lore o {n} write sette. for ðan ic am michel þe {n} chi {n} d {e} ðar hwile ðe ic o {n} ðese wrecche lichame am wuniende. ⁊ ofte forȝete ðat me god {;} wære {60} te healde {n}. and ec sum oðer saule hit wile helpe {n}.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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