-heald
See also: heald
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *halþaz (“inclined”). Akin to Old Frisian -hald, Old High German -hald, Old Norse -hallr, Old English heald (“bent, inclined toward”), Old English hielde (“slope”).
Suffix
-heald
- bent; inclined toward, tending toward; sloping toward
- niþerheald "bent downwards"
- scyteheald "bent to shoot downwards, precipitous, oblique, steep"
- fæstheald "firmly fixed, secure"
- frēondheald "friendly, amiable"
- sūþheald "sloping toward the south"