halda

Borrowed from German Halde.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦalda]

halda f

1. slag heap

   Synonyms: výsypka, odval

2. (programming) heap (data structure made of trees)
3. (programming) heap (large pool of unused memory)

• halda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• halda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• halda in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda (third person singular past indicative helt, third person plural past indicative hildu, supine hildið)

1. to hold
2. to think, to say

eg haldi, at ... - I think, that ...

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhalta/

  Rhymes: -alta

halda (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hélt, third-person plural past indicative héldu, supine haldið)

1. to hold (+ dative)

   Hún hélt barninu þétt að sér.

   She held the baby close.

2. to think (have an opinion)

   Já, ég held það.

   Yes, I think so.

   Nei, ég held ekki.

   No, I don't think so.

   Heldurðu að útvarpið sé bilað?

   Do you think the radio's broken?

• halde

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną. Akin to English hold.

• IPA^(key): /²hɑldɑ/

halda (present tense held, past tense heldt, supine halde, past participle halden, present participle haldande, imperative hald or haldt)

1. to hold

   Kva held du på?

   What are you holding?

halda fram

1. to continue

halda seg

1. to endure, keep

   Kor lenge held denne mjølka seg?

   How long will this milk keep?

   Eg må på do. Eg klarer ikkje å halda meg lenger.

   I need the toilet. I can not keep it in any longer.

halda til

1. to stay somewhere, be somewhere

   Han held til i ei hytte i skogen.

   He is staying in a cabin in the woods.

• holde (Bokmål)

• “halda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda (singular past indicative helt, plural past indicative heldu, past participle haldinn)

1. to hold

• Icelandic: halda
• Faroese: halda
• Norn: halda
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halda
• Old Swedish: halda, holda, halla
  • Swedish: hålla, hall (dialectal)
• Danish: holde
  • Norwegian Bokmål: holde
• Old Gutnish: halda
  • Gutnish: halde, alde, hald', halda

• “halda”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• holda, halla

From Old Norse halda, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną.

halda

1. to hold
2. to keep
3. to guard, defend

• Swedish: hålla, hall (dialectal)

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halda f (plural haldas)

1. skirt
2. a kind of sack

• “halda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014