helzt
Old Norse
Etymology
Superlative of an adjective corresponding to Old High German halto (“much”), from the comparative heldr. Related to Old English hold (“pleasant, favourable, kind”)
Adverb
helzt
- most, most of all, especially
- Þik vil ek helzt eiga, þótt ek kjósa um alla menn (Sigrdrífumál / Völsunga saga, chapter 21. "Thee would I fainest choose, though I had all men's sons to choose from." trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, Walter Scott Press, London, 1888)
References
- “helzt”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press