hele

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: heel, he'll (one pronunciation)

Verb

hele

1. Obsolete form of heal.

Etymology 2

From Middle English helen, helien, from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”, strong verb) and helian (“to conceal, cover, hide”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *helan, from Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to conceal, stash, receive stolen goods”) and Proto-Germanic *haljaną (“to hull, conceal”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide”).

Cognate with Scots heal (“to cover, hide, conceal”), Saterland Frisian hela (“to conceal”), Dutch helen (“to conceal”), German hehlen (“to deal in stolen or illegal goods”), Swedish häla (“hide”) and hälare (“fence, peddler of stolen goods”), as well as with helmet and Latin cēlō (“conceal”). Related to hole, hull.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: heel, he'll (one pronunciation)

Verb

hele (third-person singular simple present heles, present participle heling, simple past and past participle heled)

1. (rare, now chiefly dialectal or archaic) To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).
   • 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.

   • 1921, The Builder: A Journal for the Masonic Student, page 208:

     Men could look up and understand something of the star-Spangled arch of blue, but the reversed arch or crypt beneath was to the eyes a flesh 'heled, concealed, and never revealed,' […]

   • 2019, William Harvey, Albert G. Mackey, Arthur Edward Waite, Symbolism and Discourses on the Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft and Master Mason Blue Lodge Degrees, page 36:

     The second is concerned more especially with the obligation of the Neophyte Grade in which the Candidate is pledged to hele, conceal and never reveal the secret art and hidden mysteries of Masonry.

2. (rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).
   • 1861, The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 275:

     At the time of earthing the potatoes by the double mould-plough, turnip seed is sown, and thus "heled;" the turnips arrive at maturity before the potatoes, and are pulled without damage to them.

   • 1881, Report of the New Hampshire Deptartment of Agriculture, page 252:

     and for this reason had better be taken up and heled in, in a safe place, where there is no danger from standing water.

   • 1895, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of American Grape Vines, by the Bush & Son & Meissner firm of vinegrowers in Bushberg, Mo., page 43:

     Take your vines, in a pail with water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the place where they were heled-in,* to the holes;

     *On receiving your vines from the nursery, they should be taken out of the box, without delay, and heled-in, which is done as follows: In a dry and well protected situation, a trench is made in the soil The plants are then set thickly together in the trench and soil taken from is thrown into the first, covering the roots carefully,

   • 1913 May, Nebraska Horticulture, page 8:

     As soon as received the plants should be unpacked and if they can not be planted at once they should be "heled in" i. e., placed in a trench and thoroughly watered.

Alternative forms

• heal, heel

References

• Notes on Hele

Anagrams

• Ehle, Heel, heel

Danish

Adjective

hele

1. plural and definite singular attributive of hel

Verb

hele (imperative hel, infinitive at hele, present tense heler, past tense helede, perfect tense er helet)

1. (intransitive) heal

   Såret er helet.

   The wound has healed.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From heel, by analogy with the inflection of adjectives that follow.

Adverb

hele

1. Alternative form of heel
   • 2018 25 June, Carolien Roelants, “Goed nieuws uit Jemen plus wat Hollandse kortzichtigheid”, nrc.nl:

     Hele goede, hele dure koffie, met name bestemd voor de Aziatische markt, want Europa is „gevoeliger voor de prijs”, zegt hij elegant.

     Very good, very expensive coffee, especially destined for the Asiatic market, for “Europe is more sensitive to the price”, he says elegantly.

Usage notes

See the usage notes at the main entry.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

hele

1. inflection of heel:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Verb

hele

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of helen

Anagrams

• heel

Esperanto

Etymology

hela +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le/

Adverb

hele

1. brightly

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *heledä. Cognate to Finnish heleä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhele/,

Adjective

hele (genitive heleda, partitive heledat, comparative heledam, superlative kõige heledam)

1. light

   heledad juuksed — light hair

   helesinine — light blue

2. high-pitched, high (of tone)

   Heleda häälega neiu.

   A girl with a high voice.

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

helistä +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheleˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification^(key): he‧le

Noun

hele

1. (music) ornament

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “hele”, 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

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le/,

Verb

hele

1. (intransitive) to walk, move

   hele mai ― to come

   hele aku ― to go

References

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *hailī. Compare helen and hol (“whole”).

Alternative forms

• hale, heale, heel, heele, helle, hel, ȝel, ȝele
• (early) eale, hæle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛːl(ə)/

Noun

hele (uncountable)

1. Health or wellbeing; one's mental or physical condition.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4139-4140:

     [...] ‘I shal my-self to herbes techen yow,
     That shul ben for your hele, and for your prow;’ [...]

     ‘I shall myself guide you to herbs,
     That shall be for your health and for your benefit;’

2. That which heals or cures; healing:
   1. (medicine) A curative medicine.
   2. (Christianity) Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)
3. Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:
   1. Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind:
   2. Beneficence, kindness; kind behaviour.
   3. (Christianity) Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)
4. Success, wealth; a state of thriving.
5. Fortune; a favourable destiny.

Related terms

• goderhele
• soule-hele

Descendants

• English: heal
• Scots: heal, hele
• Yola: heale, heall, heal, hele

References

• “hēle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English hēla, hǣla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Compare hough (“hough, hock”).

Alternative forms

• heele, heyle, heyll, hiele, hile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːl(ə)/, /ˈhɛːl(ə)/

Noun

hele (plural heles or helen)

1. heel (back of a foot)

   Synonym: hough

2. heel or spur (of a shoe)
3. (rare) The lower part of anything.

Descendants

• English: heel
• Scots: heel
• Yola: heel

References

• “hẹ̄le, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

hele

1. Alternative form of el

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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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

References

• “hele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German helen.

Alternative forms

• (a- and split infinitives) hela

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to fence (to receive stolen goods)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse héla.

Noun

hele f (definite singular hela, indefinite plural heler, definite plural helene)

1. hoarfrost

Verb

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

1. to rime

References

• “hele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈele/
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: he‧le

Verb

hele

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

Swedish

Adjective

hele

1. definite natural masculine singular of hel

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhele/,
• Hyphenation: he‧le

Noun

hele (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜎᜒ)

1. lullaby

   Synonyms: oyayi, aloy, alo

2. act of singing a lullaby (to make a child or infant fall asleep)

   Synonym: paghehele

3. caress; fondling
4. Alternative form of hele-hele

Derived terms

See also

• lambing

Tongan

Noun

hele

1. knife

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian هله (hala, “pay attention!”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Adverb

hele

1. especially

   Hayvanları seviyorum, hele iki kedileri. ― I like the animals, especially the two cats.

2. (when modifying a verb in the imperative mood) just

   Hele hayır de! ― Just say no!

3. at least

   Hele on bin lira değerdir. ― It is at least ten thousand lira worth.

4. finally

   Can, hele ehliyet sınavını geçmiş. ― Can finally passed his driver’s exam.

Synonyms

• (especially): özellikle
• (at least): en azından
• (finally): sonunda

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːɫ/, /hɪɫ/
• Homophones: heale, heel, hyle

Etymology 1

From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll.

Alternative forms

• hile, hill

Noun

hele

1. hill
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Whithele.

     Whitehill.

Derived terms

• Whithele
• Vearnee-hile

Etymology 2

Noun

hele

1. Alternative form of heale (“health”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Yer hele.

     Your health (a toast).

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45