Á-habban
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - á-habban
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- á-habban
- Add: I. to restrain:--ꝥ hí hí from wífum áhæfden, Bd. 1, 27; S. 496, 5. ꝥ hí áhabban hí fram swylcum unrihtum, 491, 24. Heó sceolde hí áhabban fram Godes húses ingange, 493, 15: 489, 17. Fram ingange is tó áhabbanne ab ingressu abstinendum est, 495, 20. Hine fram þám síðfæte áhæbbende, Hml. S. 23 b, 161. II. to support (cf. O. H. Ger. ant-habén suspendere, sustinere):--Áhæfd (anhaebd, -hæbd) suspensus, Txts. 99, 1947. a-habban