holian

Old English

From Proto-West Germanic *holōn, related to Old English holh, hol. Cognate with Old High German holōn (“to dig out, excavate”).

holian

to hollow something out, to make something hollow
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.
  Hī ðā hwæthwega holodon and ðǣrrihte ðæt wæter swā genihtsumlīce ūt flēow ðæt hit arn strēamrynes of ðam munte.
  to make a hole in something

Conjugation of holian (weak class 2)

hōlian

to oppress
to slander
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth & Thomas Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, German Lexicon Project.
  Ne sele ðū mē hōliendum mē.

Conjugation of hōlian (weak class 2)

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “holian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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