English Explanatory Dictionary

onhold

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To hold on (to).
  2. To hold on.

Word forms

onhold onholds onholding onheld onholden

Etymology

From Middle English anhealden (“to retain”), from Old English onhealdan, anhealdan (“to hold, keep”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian anhoolde (“to stop, persist”), West Frisian oanhâlde (“to apprehend, arrest, detain”), Dutch aanhouden (“to persist, continue, retain”) and onthouden (“to withhold, retain”), German anhalten (“to stop, last, persist”) and enthalten (“to contain, include”). By surface analysis, on- + hold.

Derived words

onholding
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