An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/holen

by Friedrich Kluge

holen, verb, to fetch,’ from Middle High German holn (variant haln), verb, Old High German holôn (halôn), ‘to call, invite, lead or fetch (hither).’ Compare Old Saxon halôn, Old Frisian halia, Dutch halen, ‘to fetch’; Anglo-Saxon geholian and *gehalian, English to hale. The Teutonic root hal, hol, corresponds to Latin calâre, ‘to convoke,’ Greek καλεῖν. Compare further Hall, hell, which probably belong also to the same root.