handsel

Etymology
From, , from and/or. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A lucky omen.
 * 2) A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
 * 3)  Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
 * 1)  Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
 * 1)  Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.

Derived terms

 * , the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or presents are given to servants, children, etc.

Translations

 * Finnish: uudenvuodenlahja
 * Swedish: nyårspresent


 * Bulgarian:
 * Persian:

Verb

 * 1)  To give a handsel to.
 * 2)  To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
 * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86:
 * And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall.
 * 1)  To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
 * 1)  To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

Etymology
, see and.

Noun

 * 1)  down payment, security
 * 2)  a good omen