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Hal caorresponds both to the word and to  hallus,  heall, which are translations of ‘petra’; see. These may be further related to, which, however, is more closely connected with  *halþs, ‘inclined’;   heald,  hallr,  hald, , ‘overhanging, inclined’; yet the dental in these words may be a suffix. If hallus, ‘rock,’ were allied,  hváll, hóll ( *hwêlus),, ‘hill,’ might be compared, as well as  hyll,  hill. For an Aryan root kel, ‘to rise,’  celsus, collis, and  kalnas, ‘hill.’   ,, ‘half’ simply, abstract of. Introduced by Luther into the literary language from and  (a strictly  word would end in b instead of f;   half, under ); the  type is probably halƀiþa?. In  (16th ) is used.   ,, from the  halfter,  halftra, , ‘halter’;   halster,  hœlstre,  halter; a West  word most closely allied with  halp,  halp,  helbe, ‘handle, helve,’  hylf, ,  to  helve; in earlier  also , ‘hilt, helve.’ From the same root are formed with a suffix m,  halmo (for *halbmo), in  jioh-halmo,  giech-halme, ‘rope fastened to the yoke to guide the oxen,’  halme, ‘handle, helve, lever of a bell,’ halm-ackes, ‘axe’ ( also ), likewise  halme, ‘handle’; so too the modified forms  joh-helmo,  giech-helme;  helma, ‘handle’ ( also to  helm), and  helmstock, ‘tiller,’ are not connected with this word; see  (2). ‘Handle’ is the sense of the whole group, and even of. Perhaps keltuvě, ‘swiple of a flail,’ is allied.   ,, ‘sound’; see.   ,, ‘hall, large room, entrance hall, porch,’ unknown to. The word, which was introduced by Luther into the literary language, was originally entirely unknown to the  (in earlier   was used); it may have originated among the  and  tribes of Germany. It is a thorough term;  hǫll,,  heall, ,  hall,  halla,  halle, , ‘hall, a large room covered with a roof and open or closed at the side,’ sometimes ‘temple, house of God.’ Not allied to  hallus,   heall, ‘rock,’  and  hill. From the is derived  halle. Against the derivation from the root hel, ‘to conceal’, there is no weighty objection, , ‘the concealed or covered place.’ Yet also  çâlâ, ‘house.’ —

,, ‘saltern,’ is the ordinary , not, as was formerly supposed, a  term ( halen, ‘salt’); , a late  derivative of , ‘saltern.’   halhûs, ‘salt-house,’  halgrâve, , ‘director and judge in matters connected with salt-mines.’  ,, ‘to sound, resound’;.  , and, ‘stalk, stem, straw,’ from  halm, , and halme, ,  and  halm, ;   healm,  halm; the meaning in West  is ‘grass or corn-stalk’;  halmr, ‘straw.’ In sense and sound corresponding to  calamus,  κάλαμος, ‘reed, reed-pen, halm’ ( kalamas, ‘reed-pen’),  slama, , ‘halm.’ Perhaps the  word is derived from ; it is also conceivable that , like , was obtained from a South  tribe by the Aryans who had migrated westwards. Yet it is more probable that Halm and κάλαμος, like  culmus, ‘stalk,’ are connected with  culmen, ‘peak, summit,’ and farther with excello.   ,, ‘neck,’ from the  and  hals, ; corresponding to  and  hals,  heals ( to halse, ‘embrace,’ but now antiquated; the modern word is neck),  hals, , ‘neck,’  hals ( halsis), ; all point to a common  , halsa-. Primit. allied to collum for *colsum,, ‘neck’ ( also collus, );  also  κλοιός, ‘collar’ (from *κλοσιός)?. Whether excello, excelsus, are also  allied (,  ‘prominent part of the body’) remains uncertain. From is derived  haubert,  halberc, ‘hauberk,’ from hals-bërg(a). —  ,, from the  halsen,  halsôn, ‘to embrace, fall on one's neck’;   omhelzen, ÁAS. healsian, ‘to implore,’ halsien,  hálsa, ‘to embrace.’ ,, ‘moreover, forsooth, methinks,’ a  meaning ‘rather,’  and  halt, ,  hald, ‘rather’;  a   of the posit. halto, ‘very.’ The ending, according to the law of apocope, has