aðhald
Icelandic
Etymology
From að- + hald.
Noun
aðhald n (genitive singular aðhalds, nominative plural aðhöld)
- support, assistance
- Synonym: stuðningur
- supervision, restraint, control
- Synonym: taumhald
- 2000, Gunnar G. Schram, Ísland á Nýrri Öld, University of Iceland Press, →ISBN, page 147:
- Aðhald og eftirlit með framkvæmdarvaldi og stjórnsýslunni hefur að ýmsu leyti verið styrkt í formi og framkvæmd.
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- thrift, economizing, the act of saving money
- Synonym: sparnaður
- slimming
- Synonym: megrun
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “aðhald” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
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