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Where does “hælder” come from?
hælder (Old Swedish) comes from Old Norse heldr, from Proto-Germanic *haldiz.
Ancestry of “hælder”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Norse
heldr
rather; inflection of halda: ## second-person...
2
Proto-Germanic
*haldiz
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Words derived from “hælder”
heller
i helvete heller
så fan heller
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