hela

Esperanto

Etymology

From German hell.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: he‧la

Adjective

hela (accusative singular helan, plural helaj, accusative plural helajn)

1. clear, bright
   • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, John Gabriel Borkman:

     Li estas juna homo kun helaj, bravaj okuloj.

     He is a young man with bright, brave eyes.

Related terms

• helo

Finnish

Etymology

A word from the same stem as heleä (“bright (e.g. of a sound)”) and helistä (“to clink, jingle, tingle”); thus a sound-symbolic word. Morphologically possibly a back-formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelɑ/,
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): he‧la

Noun

hela

1. mounting, fitting, bushing
2. bolster (on a knife)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• “hela”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from German hell. Not inherited from Esperanto hela, but could be influenced. The native word is klara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhela/

Adjective

hela

1. (neologism, of colors) light

   Synonym: klara

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay hela, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hilah (“drag, pull”). Cognate with Tagalog hila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: hé‧la

Verb

héla

1. (transitive) to pull, to drag, to haul

Derived terms

References

• “hela” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hilah (“drag, pull”). Cognate with Tagalog hila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hela/
• Rhymes: -ela, -la

Verb

héla (Jawi spelling هيلا)

1. (transitive) to drag, to haul

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: hela
• → Ternate: hela

References

• “hela” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• helet
• helte (simple past, Etymology 4)
• helt (past participle, Etymology 4)

Verb

hela

1. past tense of hele
2. past participle of hele

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

hela (present tense helar, past tense hela, past participle hela, passive infinitive helast, present participle helande, imperative hela/hel)

1. alternative form of hele

Noun

hela f (definite singular hela, indefinite plural heler or helor, definite plural helene or helone)

1. definite singular of hele
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of hele

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Cognate with Old Frisian hēla.

Alternative forms

• hǣla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.lɑ/,

Noun

hēla m (nominative plural hēlan)

1. heel (of the foot)

   Synonym: hōh

Descendants

• Middle English: hele, heele, heyle, heyll, hiele, hile
  • English: heel
  • Scots: heel
  • Yola: heel

Etymology 2

Variant of ēalā, equivalent to *hē +‎ lā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeː.lɑː/,

Interjection

hēlā

1. Alternative form of ēalā

Old Frisian

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Cognates with Old English hēla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːla/,

Noun

hēla m

2. heel

Descendants

• North Frisian: (Föhr-Amrum) haiel, hael, häile, hajel, hägel
• West Frisian: hyl

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *hailijan. Cognate with Old English hǣlan, Old Saxon hēlian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːla/,

Verb

hēla

2. (transitive) to heal

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: heila
• West Frisian: hielje

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 26, 28

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heila, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną.

Verb

hēla

1. to heal, to cure
2. to save (in religious sense)

Conjugation

or

Descendants

• Swedish: hela

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈela/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: he‧la

Verb

hela

1. inflection of haber:
   1. second-person singular imperative combined with la
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with la

Swahili

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

hela

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Heller, which was introduced in 1904 at the value of 1/100 rupee.

Noun

hela (n class, plural hela)

1. money

   Synonym: pesa

2. (historical) heller

References

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic .

Interjection

hela

1. Exclamation to get attention: hey
   • 18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi‎, translation from R. Allen (1946) “Inkishafi—a translation from the Swahili”, in African Studies, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, pages 243–249, stanza 11:

     مُيُ وَاغُ نِنِ هُزُدُكَانِ ، لِكُغُرِيِلُ هِيْلَ نِنْنِ ،

     Moyo wangu nini huzundukani, likughuriyelo hela ni-n'ni?

     Soul, why not awake? Hi! what is it that cheats you?

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Adjective

hela

1. inflection of hel:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish hēla, from Old Norse heila, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną. Equivalent to Swedish hel +‎ -a.

Verb

hela (present helar, preterite helade, supine helat, imperative hela)

1. to heal; especially through faith

Conjugation

Related terms

• helare

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay hela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.la/

Verb

hela

1. (transitive) to pull

Conjugation

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛla/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛla/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈhala/

Verb

hela (first-person singular present helaf, not mutable)

1. Alternative form of hel