handscyldig
Old English
adj
Definitions
- liable to lose a hand
Etymology
Compound from Old English hand (hand, side, person regarded as holder receiver of something, control, possession, power, charge, agency) + Old English scyldig.
Origin
Old English
scyldig
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *handuz Proto-Germanic
- *skuldīgaz Proto-Germanic
- deaþscyldig Old English
- efenscyldig Old English
- feorhscyldig Old English
- godscyldig Old English
- hand Old English
- handboc Old English
- handbred Old English
- handcosp Old English
- handgeweorc Old English
- handgewrit Old English
- handlian Old English
- handseax Old English
- handtam Old English
- handweorc Old English
- healfscyldig Old English
- manscyldig Old English
- morþorscyldig Old English
- scyldig Old English
- sċyld Old English
- twiscyldig Old English
- wifhand Old English
- wæpnedhand Old English
- þeofscyldig Old English
- þurhscyldig Old English
- hand Middle English
- hond Middle English
- honde Middle English
- *handu gmw-pro