8/18/2023 0 Comments Halt and lame meaningWhoops, sorry - I only meant that the noun meaning "lame people" and the verb meaning "to limp" were more-or-less obsolete - not the "stop" senses. So some might say they're not even the same word, just homphones/homographs. Etymonline shows that halt (to limp) comes from an Old English word from a Germanic root, while we re-adopted halt (to stop) from French or Italian at a later time. Even Victoria's haltingly can be taken as "with stops" rather than "limpingly". dated, now usually offensive see usage paragraph below : unable or only partially able to use a body part and especially a limb. It is the meaning of lame or limping that is obsolete. : Yes, the "stop" meaning of halt is perfectly common. It's possible that for a younger generation, like that of Victoria, the word is as old-fashioned as sentinels saying, "Halt, who goes there?" : : I vote for "less obsolete." It may be my imagination that the word is part of the living tongue, even if only in specialized (military?) or literary uses ("The bus came to a halt," "he had to halt his monologue to drink some water"). : : : Although "halt" as a noun or a verb is more or less obsolete, we do still sometimes say "halting" and "haltingly". Luke xiii.21, "The poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind". I suspect it is a misremembering of the various occurrences of "halt" in this sense in the King James Bible, e.g. : : : It's a tautology ("halt" in this phrase being a synonym of "lame"). CSB Within these lay a large number of the disabled-blind, lame, and paralyzed. NASB In these porticoes lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, limping, or paralyzed. NIV Here a great number of disabled people used to lie-the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. It seems to be the only real use of "halt" with this meaning in modern usage. John 5:3 ESV In these lay a multitude of invalidsblind, lame, and paralyzed. : : : : I know the meaning, but have been unable to find the origin. In Reply to: The halt and the lame posted by RRC on Octoat 16:29: This is lame, to be honest im just gonna delete the NES games app until. word Definition lame, halt, maimed NASB Translation lame (14). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin a prim. Posted by Victoria S Dennis on Octoat 17:12 If so, now charging for it now kind of kills off true meaning of that tribute. Transliteration: chlos Phonetic Spelling: (kho-los') Definition: lame, halt, maimed Usage: lame, deprived of a foot, limping.
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