halga

See also: halga'

Irish

Noun

halga m sg

1. h-prothesized form of alga

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxɑːl.ɡɑ/, [ˈhɑːɫ.ɣɑ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hailagō, from Proto-Germanic *hailagô (“holy person”), weak masculine singular of *hailagaz (“holy”). Cognate with Old High German heilego (“saint”). Formally equivalent to Old Norse Helgi (proper name, literally “Holy One”).

Noun

hālga m

1. holy man, saint (male or of unspecified gender)
   • 996–997, Ælfric of Eynsham, edited and translated by Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A., Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Early English Text Society original series 82), volume I, London: N. Trübner & Co., published 1885, page 452:

     Fif and twentiġ manna myslīċe ġeuntrume cōmon tō þām hālgan heora hǣle biddende; sum wǣron blinde, sume wǣron healte, sume ēac dēafe, and dumbe ēac sum and hī ealle wurdon ānes dæġes ġehǣlede þurh þæs hālgan þingunge and him hām ġewendon.

     Twenty-five men, sickened in various ways, came to the saint begging for the health; some were blind, some were lame, some were also deaf, and some were dumb, and they were all healed in one day through the intercession of the saint and went home.

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	hālga	hālgan
accusative	hālgan	hālgan
genitive	hālgan	hālgena
dative	hālgan	hālgum

Coordinate terms

• hālġe

Derived terms

• ealra hālgena mæssedæġ
• sundorhālga

Descendants

• Middle English: halwe
  • English: hallow (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Adjective

hālġa

1. strong nominative feminine plural of hāliġ
2. strong accusative feminine plural of hāliġ
3. weak nominative masculine singular of hāliġ