hele

• IPA^(key): /hiːl/

hele

1. Obsolete form of heal.

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.

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

1. (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.

2. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cover with or in (slates, tiles, etc.); roof.
3. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To practise concealment; keep a secret; keep silence.

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• Notes on Hele

• Ehle, Heel, heel

hele

1. plural and definite singular attributive of hel

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.

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

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

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.

See the usage notes at the main entry.

See the etymology of the main entry.

hele

1. Inflected form of heel

hele

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of helen

• heel

hela +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le/

hele

1. brightly

Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish heleä.

hele (genitive heleda, partitive heledat)

1. light

   heledad juuksed — light hair

   helesinine — light blue

2. high-pitched, high (of tone)

   Heleda häälega neiu.

   A girl with a high voice.

< helistä

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

hele

1. (music) ornament

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le/, [ˈhɛlɛ]

hele

1. (intransitive) to walk, move

   hele mai ― to come

   hele aku ― to go

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

hele

1. Alternative form of ele

hele

1. definite singular of hel
2. plural of hel

From the adjective hel

hele n (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. a whole

From Old Norse heila

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

1. to heal

From Middle Low German helen

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

• “hele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

hele

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of hel.

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

• IPA^(key): [heˈle]

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.

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