hals
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- neck, throat
- (nautical) hawse
Etymology
Inherited from Old English heals (neck, prow of a ship) inherited from *hals inherited from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (neck, throat).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*halsaz
Gloss
neck, throat
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
喉, 咽
Emoji
🦒 🧣
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Hawes English
- halse English
- halseman English
- halsen English
- healsfang English
- *kols- Proto-Indo-European
- *kolsos Proto-Indo-European
- *kólsos Proto-Indo-European
- hals Norwegian Bokmål
- *halsaz Proto-Germanic
- hals Swedish
- hals Norwegian Nynorsk
- heals Old English
- healsbeag Old English
- healsfang Old English
- healsgebedda Old English
- halsen Middle English
- hals Old Norse
- ᛋᚴᛅᚾᛘᛅᛚᛋ Old Norse
- Helsingør Danish
- frelse Danish
- hals Danish
- háls Icelandic
- hals Old High German
- hálsur Faroese
- 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 Gothic
- *hals gmw-pro
- hals Old Dutch
- hars Westrobothnian
- hals Old Frisian