hele

Alternative forms

• heal

Etymology

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-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”). More at heal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 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.

References

• Rituals of the Freemasons
• Notes on Hele

Anagrams

• Ehle, Heel, heel

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.

Pronunciation

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• 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

• heel

Etymology

hela +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le/

Adverb

hele

1. brightly

Etymology

Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish heleä.

Adjective

hele (genitive heleda, partitive heledat)

1. light

   heledad juuksed — light hair

   helesinine — light blue

Etymology

< helistä

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hele

1. (music) ornament

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sa‘ele and Proto-Central-Eastern 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

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

From the adjective hel

Etymology 3

From Old Norse heila

Etymology 4

From Middle Low German helen

References

• “hele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Adjective

hele

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of hel.