Hell

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See also: hell and he'll

English

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Hell

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Hell, Norway

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Proper noun

Hell

Alternative spelling of Hel.
Alternative form of Hela.
Alternative letter-case form of hell.
- 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan‎, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119:
  In ancient times, Turfan was called Huochou, or Fire City, which was not inappropriate. Turfan is located in the lowest depression in Asia, just a notch above Hell.
Any of various places so named.
1. A village in Stjørdal, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.

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Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German helle, from Old High German hellia, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju. Cognate with German Hölle, Dutch hel, English hell, Icelandic hel.

Noun

Hell f

(Uri) hell

References

Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 14.

Dutch

Etymology

First attested as in hello in the middle of the twelfth century. Presumably a compound of Middle Dutch helle (“lowland, marshy area”) and lo (“light forest on sandy soil”). An alternative interpretation reads the toponym as a compound of Middle Dutch hel (“bright, clear”) and lo (“pool”). Compare Helhuizen, Helwerd, Holwerd and Hulhuizen.