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Hela

Hela

See also: hela, HeLa, helá, and héla

English

Proper noun

Hela

  1. The Norse goddess Hel.
  2. The ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.

Synonyms

  • (Norse goddess): Hel, ****
  • (Sinhalese language): Elu, Helu

Czech

Proper noun

Hela f

  1. A pet form of the female given name Helena.

hela

hela

See also: Hela, HeLa, helá, and héla

Esperanto

Etymology

From German ****.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhela/
  • Hyphenation: he‧la

Adjective

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

  1. clear, bright
    • 1997, Henrik Ibsen, John Gabriel Borkman:
      Li estas juna homo kun helaj, bravaj okuloj.
      He is a young man with bright, brave eyes.

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Finnish

Noun

hela

  1. mounting, fitting, bushing

Declension

Inflection of hela (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative hela helat
genitive helan helojen
partitive helaa heloja
illative helaan heloihin
singular plural
nominative hela helat
accusative nom. hela helat
gen. helan
genitive helan helojen
helainrare
partitive helaa heloja
inessive helassa heloissa
elative helasta heloista
illative helaan heloihin
adessive helalla heloilla
ablative helalta heloilta
allative helalle heloille
essive helana heloina
translative helaksi heloiksi
instructive heloin
abessive helatta heloitta
comitative heloineen

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto hela.

Adjective

hela

  1. light (in colour)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

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

Verb

hela

  1. simple past of hele
  2. past participle of hele

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːlɑ/

Noun

hēla m (nominative plural hēlan)

  1. heel (of the foot)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Variant of ēalā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːlɑ:/

Interjection

hēlā

  1. Alternative form of ēalā

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

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Descendants


Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

hela

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of hel.

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
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