haligware

Old English

Etymology

From hāliġ +‎ -ware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑː.lij.wɑ.re/, [ˈhɑː.lij.wɑ.re]

Noun

hāliġware m

1. a holy one; a hallow or saint
   • c. 950–960 CE, Aldred the Scribe, Luke 1:70, in George Waring, editor, The Lindisfarne and Rushworth Gospels, Part III: The Gospel according to S. Luke (Surtees Society Volume 43), Durham, England: Andrews and Co., published 1863, page 12:

     suæ sprecend wæs ðerh muðe haligwara ðaðe frõ worulde woeron ł sint witgena his

     [original: sicut locutus est per os scõrum [sanctorum] qui a sæculo² sunt prophetarum³ eius]

     as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been since the beginning of the world

     (literally, “as [he] was speaking through the mouth of the holy ones, who were or are his prophets since [the beginning of] the world”)

     Footnote 2 reads ‘ab evo’, an alternative reading, literally “since [the beginning of] the age[s]”. Footnote 3 reads In R. ‘prophetarum’ follows ‘sanctorum’, which makes clear that sanctorum is an adjective modifying prophetarum, which in the Lindisfarne Gospels has been right-shifted, interposing the modifying relative clause qui a saeculo sunt (a common device in Latin).

Usage notes

• Attested only in the plural meaning "holy people, saints".

Declension

Strong ja-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hāliġware	hāliġwaras
accusative	hāliġware	hāliġwaras
genitive	hāliġwares	hāliġwara
dative	hāliġware	hāliġwarum