Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To hedge or fence in; enclose; protect by hedging. · To save; spare; refrain from using or spending. · To be thrifty; be economical.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn enclosure; a park
From earlier hayne, from Middle English *haynen, *heynen, from Old Norse hegna (“to protect; defend”), from Proto-Germanic *haginjaną (“to hedge”), equivalent to hedge + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hegna (“to fence; confine; punish”), Swedish hägna (“to fence off; enclose; protect”), Danish hegne (“to enclose; fence in”). Related to hedge. The noun is from Middle English heyn.
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