halseny

English

Etymology

Originally a dialectal variant of halsen (“to predict”). While nominal use is mentioned once in 19th century English dialect literature,[1] the modern sense of "prediction, conjecture" probably originates from misinterpretation of the verb in dictionaries.

Verb

halseny

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of halsen

Noun

halseny (plural halsenies)

  1. (rare) A prediction; conjecture.
    • 2018, Evolution of Man to Human, page 38:
      As years passed away my halseny prediction's dark shadow forecast over the flourished copper civilization.
    • 2018 Jan-Jun, Naziyah Nabi, “Ecopoetics: The Halseny Of Environmental Literature”, in AGU International Journal of Research in Social Sciences & Humanities, volume 6, page 545:
      (see title)
    • 2020, R Sandberg, Surveillance capitalism in the context of futurology: An inquiry to the implications of surveillance capitalism on the future of humanity:
      the protagonists in the Greek prophesy-dramas never manage to divest themselves of their destinies, and it is more often than not their own precautions that essentially bring the halsenies to fruition

References
  1. Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HALSEN, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 36, column 1.

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