Hell

See also: hell and he'll

English

Hell, near the Værnes airport in Stjørdal, Norway

Proper noun

Hell

1. Alternative spelling of Hel.
2. Alternative form of Hela.
3. Alternative letter-case form of hell.
   • 2016, Bill Porter, The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan‎^[1], 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.

4. Any of various places so named.
   1. A village in Stjørdal municipality, Trøndelag, Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
      • 1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 571:

        Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.

   2. A locality in West Bay, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
   3. A ghost town in Riverside County, California, United States.
   4. An unincorporated community in Putnam Township, Livingston County, Michigan, United States.

Hell, Michigan

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

1. (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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛl/
• Hyphenation: Hell
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophone: hel

Proper noun

Hell n

1. a hamlet in Putten, Gelderland, Netherlands

References

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German helle, from Old High German hella, hellia, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”).

Noun

Hell f

1. (Erzgebirgisch) hell

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

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

Noun

Hell f

1. hell