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Webster 1913 Edition


Hele

Hele

,
Noun.
[See
Heal
,
Noun.
]
Health; welfare.
[Obs.]
“In joy and perfyt hele.”
Chaucer.

Hele

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
helan
, akin to D.
helen
, OHG.
helan
, G.
hehlen
, L.
celare
. √17. See
Hell
, and cf.
Conceal
.]
To hide; to cover; to roof.
[Obs.]
Hide and
hele
things.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hele

HELE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. celo.] To hide.

Definition 2024


Hele

Hele

See also: hele, helé, hèle, and hélé

Estonian

Proper noun

Hele

  1. A female given name.

hele

hele

See also: Hele, helé, hèle, and hélé

English

Alternative forms

Verb

hele (third-person singular simple present heles, present participle heling, simple past hole or heled, past participle holen or heled)

  1. Alternative form of heal
  2. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To hide or conceal; keep secret; cover.
    • 1893, Robert Steele, Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus, Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2004:
      … the lion is in most gentleness and nobility, when his neck and shoulders be heled with hair and main.
  3. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cover with or in (slates, tiles, etc.); roof.
  4. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To practise concealment; keep a secret; keep silence.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eːlə
  • IPA(key): /ˈɦeː.lə/

Adjective

hele

  1. Inflected form of heel

Adverb

hele

  1. Inflected form of heel

Verb

hele

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of helen

Anagrams


Esperanto

Etymology

hela + -e

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe.le/

Adverb

hele

  1. brightly

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish heleä.

Adjective

hele (genitive heleda, partitive heledat)

  1. light
    heledad juuksedlight hair
    helesininelight blue

Finnish

Etymology

< helistä

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe̞le̞/
  • Hyphenation: he‧le

Noun

hele

  1. (music) ornament

Declension

Inflection of hele (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative hele heleet
genitive heleen heleiden
heleitten
partitive helettä heleitä
illative heleeseen heleisiin
heleihin
singular plural
nominative hele heleet
accusative nom. hele heleet
gen. heleen
genitive heleen heleiden
heleitten
partitive helettä heleitä
inessive heleessä heleissä
elative heleestä heleistä
illative heleeseen heleisiin
heleihin
adessive heleellä heleillä
ablative heleeltä heleiltä
allative heleelle heleille
essive heleenä heleinä
translative heleeksi heleiksi
instructive helein
abessive heleettä heleittä
comitative heleineen

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sa‘ele and Central Malayo-Polynesian *sele.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe.le/, [ˈhɛlɛ]

Verb

hele

  1. (intransitive) to walk, move
    hele mai ― to come
    hele aku ― to go

References

  • Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

hele

  1. definite singular of hel
  2. plural of hel

Etymology 2

From the adjective hel

Noun

hele n (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. a whole

Etymology 3

From Old Norse heila

Verb

hele (imperative hel, present tense heler, simple past and past participle hela or helet, present participle helende)

  1. to heal

Etymology 4

From Middle Low German helen

Verb

hele (imperative hel, present tense heler, simple past hela or helet or helte, past participle hela or helet or helt, present participle helende)

  1. to receive stolen goods

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Swedish

Adjective

hele

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of hel.