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Hallow is a word usually used as a verb, meaning "to make holy or sacred,
to sanctify or consecrate, to venerate". The adjective form hallowed, as
used in The Lord's Prayer, means holy, consecrated, sacred, or revered.
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary entry for hallowed
Etymology The noun is from the Old English adjective hálig, nominalized as
se hálga "the holy man",The Gothic for "holy" is either hailags or weihaba,
weihs. "To hold as holy" or "to become holy" is weihnan, "to make holy, to
sanctify" is weihan. Holiness or sanctification is weihia. Old English like
Gothic had a second term of similar meaning, weoh "holy", with a
substantive wih or wig , in Old High German wih or wihi (Middle High German
wîhe, Modern German Weihe). The Nordendorf fibula ha
