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handsel

Meaningdelivery into the hand

Common meaning: first payment or gift that marks a beginning

Journey through time

  1. Old Norsehandsal‘delivery into the hand’source
  2. Middle Englishhanselesource
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsdelivery into the hand → first payment or gift that marks a beginninghandsel‘first payment or gift that marks a beginning’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old Norse handsal ‘delivery into the hand’.

Roots

  • handsal Old Norse “delivery into the hand”

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