hellehæft
Old English
Etymology
Compound of hell (“hell”) + hæft (“captive”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxellˌxæft/, [ˈheɫˌhæft]
Noun
hellehæft m
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “helle-hæft”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.