Noun: halse
| Singular | halse |
| Plural | halses |
Sample Sentences
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Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.
Nouns inflected like halse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).
2. Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”). See: Middle English Nouns '
hals', Old English Nouns '
heals', Dutch Nouns '
hals', German Nouns '
Hals', Swedish Nouns '
hals', Latin Nouns '
collum'.
Verbs referencing "halse"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
hals, Latin Nouns
collum.