haligdæg

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hailagadagaz. Equivalent to hāliġ (“holy”) +‎ dæġ (“day”). Cognate with West Frisian hjeldei, Icelandic helgidagur and Swedish helgdag.

Noun

hāliġdæġ m

1. holy day, the Sabbath

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hāliġdæġ	hāliġdagas
accusative	hāliġdæġ	hāliġdagas
genitive	hāliġdæġes	hāliġdaga
dative	hāliġdæġe	hāliġdagum

Descendants

• Middle English: halyday
  • English: holiday
  • Scots: haliday

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hāliġdæġ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.