𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌲𐍃

From Proto-Germanic *hailagaz. By surface analysis, 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails) +‎ -𐌰𐌲𐍃 (-ags). Attested in only one instance, as a runic inscription on the Ring of Pietroassa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛː.laxs/

𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌲𐍃 • (hailags)

1. (hapax legomenon) holy, sacred

   ᚷᚢᛏᚨᚾᛁᛟᚹᛁᚺᚨᛁᛚᚨᚷ

   gutaniowihailag

• The exact semantic differences between 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 (weihs) and the far rarer 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 (airkns) and 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌲𐍃 (hailags) are unclear. The latter two however are only attested once, whereas weihs is one of the best-attested words of the Gothic language. Airkns is only found in the Gothic Bible in affixed form (and then rarely, but it is attested as simplex in the Ostrogothic sermon recorded in the Gothica Bononiensia) with an apparent meaning leaning towards sincerity (especially sincerity of faith), and hailags is only found in a difficult-to-interpret early runic inscription from an apparently pagan context (although the pagan nature of the ring has been disputed in recent scholarship: see Mees and Markey 2018).

Attested only once, in the Runic: ᚺᚨᛁᛚᚨᚷ (hailag); lemmatization at the Biblical Gothic uncial script here is done only as a matter of convention.

• Bernard Mees and Thomas L. Markey, 'The Pietroasele Torc and the Conversion of the Goths', Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 78.4 (2018)