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Rh small horse ( hackney, ), but assimilates to the $2$, With the form there is the peculiarity that it is (was) still partly remembered as the old form of,  ( -ar, -ir: ending); but  is now mostly used in the, and in the   the relation between and ,

hokl, hokkel [hɔkəl, håkəl], , to gut and clean a fish. to h. fish. for * (by metathesis of l and k) from and old *holka,, to hollow out.  hulk,, and see $1$, and

hokni$2$ [håkni],, a greedy, voracious person or animal. ; of, ,

hol$1$ [hōl, hō$ə$l],, a young coalfish, a two- (or thre-) year-old coalfish, in the [pʌ‘ltək]. ,  for older *, either (and rather) = áll,, an eel, or = vǫlr, , a cylinder, round stick — in both cases alluding to the longish, narrow shape of the fish. in = vallonga,, a young ling. thus from an original
 * ál (or *val)-piltr (piltungr).

hol$h., n$ [hɔl],, a hole, hol,

hol [hɔl],, 1) to hole, hola, ; in in a special sense: a) to make a hole in a sheep’s ear, to h. a lug ; b) to cause openings in the clouds; he is [hɔlɩn] de sky, there are clear spaces appearing in the cloud-covered sky . 2) to hollow out, to h., = hola, , to make hollow.

holberd [hɔlbərd, hȯlbərd], holbert [hɔlbərt, hȯlbərt], and : I), fleshy; full-figured; a h. craeter’ [‘creature’] . A  [hȯl··bərdli·] is reported from , used partly of inanimate objects,  stens, big,  shapeless stones. II) , a big, full-figured person; a big, fleshy creature; a h. o’ a fellow, o’ a “quey” (a heifer). of inanimate objects: o’, big, shapeless stones. — The “hɔlbərd, hɔlbərt” is reported from ; elsewhere more : hȯlbərd, hȯlbərt. — A form [haᶅbərt, häᶅbərt] is reported from , as a substantive; a h. o’ a man, o’ a wife [‘woman’]. — holdborinn and *holdbærr,, fleshy, stout, a meaning not handed down, but found again in holdboren and holdbær, hollberin, ( “holdborinn” is handed down in sense of closely related,  a natural brother, from hold,, flesh). ,

holg [hɔlg, hålg],, hollow sea; commotion in the sea with short, high-crested waves; der ’r [‘there is’] a h. i’ de sea. In the same place also [ȯᶅg], a o. o’ a sea, of agitated, crested sea. Different words? With it is most reasonable to compare “holga sjø”, hollow sea, and holga,, to make hollow sea, topping sea; below $2$, and, and , may be either an *holg-, or = ólga,, swell, ólgusjór, , agitated, billowy sea. Just as $h$,, commotion in the sea, seems to be associated with *hulk, unevenness, knots (, , knot, hunch), so there might be a similar association between and hulg, hulgie,, knot, hunch.

holgin [hȯlgin, hȯᶅgin (hɔ̇ᶅgin)], , a tall, big, imposing fellow. Also a big, raw-boned, clumsy person, a h. o’ a fellow, o’ a dog . a bundle of straw, wisp of straw (or bundle, wisp of hay), and the same word as holge (halge),, a bundle of straw or hay, which may be used