holdlice

Old English

Etymology

From hold (“gracious, kind”) +‎ -līċe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxoldˌliː.t͡ʃe/, [ˈhoɫdˌliː.t͡ʃe]

Adverb

holdlīċe

1. kindly, graciously

Descendants

• Middle English: holdelike

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hold-líce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.