Etymology

holden

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Today it means: A brand of car (automobile) originating in Australia. Full definition →

Middle English holden ← Old English healden ← Proto-West Germanic *haldan
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  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*haldan
  2. Old English · inherited fromhealden
  3. Middle English · inherited fromholden
  4. English todayholden

From Middle English holden, from Old English healden, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan. By surface analysis, hold + -en.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishholden all →

holdforehold

Proto-West Germanic*haldan all →

holdforholdforehold

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.