forehold

Meanings

Noun

• The forward or front part of the hold of a ship.

Verb

• To hold or believe (something) beforehand; to assume; to anticipate, to predict.

Origin

• . Hold is a variant of hole (influenced by hold), from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol, from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą, from Proto-Germanic *hulaz; further etymology uncertain, possibly either from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- or *ḱewh₁-.
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• from Old English healdan, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, from Proto-Germanic *haldaną; further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-.