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heal-stán

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
heal-stán, healstan(?), helsta(?)
A flat cake with a hard crust, so called because of the hardness of its crust [cf. for similar terms pflasterstein in German, pavé in French, for a hard kind of cake], a crust
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  • Crustula similis

    haalstaan

    (crustalla

    halstán),

    • Txts. 55, 604
    • .
  • Helsta vel rinde

    crustula,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 137, 22
    • .
  • Healstánes

    crustule (buccellam crustulae semiplenam penniger praepes hiulco advexerat rostro,

    • Ald. 33, 19
    • ),
    • 79, 33
    • .
  • Healstan

    colliridam (v. (?) collyridam conspersam oleo,

    • Lev. 8, 26
    • ),
    • ii. 14, 56
    • .
  • Halstánum

    crustulis (sportulas crustulis (rindum,

    • An. Ox. 3858
    • )

    et tortellis refertas,

    • Ald. 53, 22
    • ),
    • 83, 62.
  • Healstánum,

    • 18, 50
    • .
Etymology
[
v. heall a stone.
Cf. Icel. hellu-steinn a flat stone; Hall-steinn (a proper name).
Perhaps the word, which seems little used, occurring only in glosses, may have ceased to be recognized as a compound, and the vowel of the second element may have been shortened. In this case it is possible that healstan may have been taken for the oblique case of a weak noun healsta (cf. (?) flán, flá), and this might account for the form helsta, and the adjective hilsten, q. v.
]
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v.  heall heall-stán hilsten.
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  • heal-stán, n.