• IPA^(key):/hiːl/
• Rhymes:-iːl
• Homophones:heel,he'll(one pronunciation)

hele

1. Obsolete form ofheal.

FromMiddle Englishhelen,helien, fromOld Englishhelan(“to conceal, cover, hide”,strong verb) andhelian(“to conceal, cover, hide”,weak verb), fromProto-West Germanic*helan, fromProto-Germanic*helaną(“to conceal, stash, receive stolen goods”) andProto-Germanic*haljaną(“to hull, conceal”); both fromProto-Indo-European*ḱel-(“to hide”).

Cognate withScotsheal(“to cover, hide, conceal”),Saterland Frisianhela(“to conceal”),Dutchhelen(“to conceal”),Germanhehlen(“to deal in stolen or illegal goods”),Swedishhäla(“hide”) andhälare(“fence, peddler of stolen goods”), as well as withhelmet andLatincēlō(“conceal”). Related tohole,hull.

• IPA^(key):/hiːl/^[1]
• Rhymes:-iːl
• Homophones:heel,he'll(one pronunciation)

hele (third-person singular simple presentheles,present participleheling,simple past and past participleheled)

1. (rare, now chieflydialectal orarchaic) Tohide,conceal, and keepsecret, especially for a secret society (such as themasons).
   • 1893, Robert Steele,Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus‎^[1], Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published2004:

     … the lion is in most gentleness and nobility, when his neck and shoulders beheled with hair and main.

   • 1921,The Builder: A Journal for the Masonic Student, page208:

     Men could look up and understand something of the star-Spangled arch of blue, but the reversed arch or crypt beneath was to the eyes a flesh 'heled, concealed, and never revealed,'[…]

   • 2019, William Harvey, Albert G. Mackey, Arthur Edward Waite,Symbolism and Discourses on the Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft and Master Mason Blue Lodge Degrees, page36:

     The second is concerned more especially with the obligation of the Neophyte Grade in which the Candidate is pledged tohele, conceal and never reveal the secret art and hidden mysteries of Masonry.

2. (rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") Tocover orconceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).
   • 1861,The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page275:

     At the time of earthing the potatoes by the double mould-plough, turnip seed is sown, and thus "heled;" the turnips arrive at maturity before the potatoes, and are pulled without damage to them.

   • 1881,Report of the New Hampshire Deptartment of Agriculture, page 252:

     […] and for this reason had better be taken up andheled in, in a safe place, where there is no danger from standing water.

   • 1895,Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of American Grape Vines, Bushberg, Mo.: Bush & Son & Meissner firm of vinegrowers, page43:

     Take your vines, in a pail with water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the place where they wereheled-in,* to the holes;[…]
     *On receiving your vines from the nursery, they should be taken out of the box, without delay, andheled-in, which is done as follows: In a dry and well protected situation, a trench is made in the soil[…] The plants are then set thickly together in the trench[…] and soil taken from [another trench] is thrown into the first, covering the roots carefully,

   • 1913 May,Nebraska Horticulture, page 8:

     As soon as received the plants should be unpacked and if they can not be planted at once they should be "heled in" i. e., placed in a trench and thoroughly watered.

• heal,heel

• Notes on Hele

• Ehle,Heel,heel

hele

1. plural anddefinitesingularattributive ofhel

hele (imperativehel,infinitiveathele,present tenseheler,past tensehelede,perfect tenseerhelet)

1. (intransitive)heal

   Såret erhelet.

   The wound hashealed.

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• Rhymes:-eːlə
• IPA^(key):/ˈɦeː.lə/

Fromheel, by analogy with the inflection of adjectives that follow.

hele

1. Alternative form ofheel
   • 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 theusage notes at the main entry.

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

hele

1. inflection ofheel:
   1. masculine/femininesingularattributive
   2. definiteneutersingularattributive
   3. pluralattributive

hele

1. (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive ofhelen

• heel

hela +‎-e

• IPA^(key):/ˈhe.le/

hele

1. brightly

FromProto-Finnic*heledä. Cognate toFinnishheleä.

• IPA^(key):/ˈhele/,[ˈ(h)ele̞]

hele (genitiveheleda,partitiveheledat,comparativeheledam,superlativekõige heledam)

1. light

   heledad juuksed —light hair

   helesinine —light blue

2. high-pitched,high (of tone)

   Heleda häälega neiu.

   A girl with ahigh voice.

helistä +‎-e

• IPA^(key):/ˈheleˣ/,[ˈhe̞le̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes:-ele
• Hyphenation^(key):he‧le

hele

1. (music)ornament

• “hele”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-02

FromProto-Polynesian*sa‘ele andProto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*sele.

• IPA^(key):/ˈhe.le/,[ˈhɛ.lɛ]

hele

1. (intransitive) towalk,move

   helemai ―tocome

   heleaku ―togo

• helekū
• hoʻohelehele

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

FromOld Englishhǣlu,hǣl, fromProto-West Germanic*hailī. Comparehelen andhol(“whole”).

• hale,heale,heel,heele,helle,hel,ȝel,ȝele
• eale,hæle(Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key):/ˈhɛːl(ə)/

hele (uncountable)

1. Health orwellbeing; one's mental or physicalcondition.
   • late 14th century,Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale,The Canterbury Tales, line 4139-4140:

     [...]‘I shal my-self to herbes techen yow,
     That shul ben for yourhele, and for your prow;’ [...]

     [...] ‘I shall myself guide you to herbs,
     That shall be for yourhealth and for your benefit;’ [...]

2. That whichheals orcures;healing:
   1. (medicine) Acurativemedicine.
   2. (Christianity)Jesus Christ(as theSaviour)
3. Help orassistance; that which isbeneficial:
   1. Security,solace; that whichprotects one or one'smind:
   2. Beneficence,kindness;kind behaviour.
   3. (Christianity)Salvation,deliverance(from Hell)
4. Success,wealth; a state ofthriving.
5. Fortune; afavourabledestiny.

• goderhele
• heleful
• soule-hele

• English:heal
• Scots:heal,hele
• Yola:heale,heall,heal,hele

• “hēle,n.(1).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

FromOld Englishhēla,hǣla, fromProto-West Germanic*hą̄hilō. Comparehough(“hough, hock”).

• heele,heyle,heyll,hiele,hile

• IPA^(key):/ˈheːl(ə)/,/ˈhɛːl(ə)/

hele (pluralhelesorhelen)

1. heel(back of a foot)

   Synonym:hough

2. heel orspur(of a shoe)
3. (rare) The lower part of anything.

• English:heel
• Scots:heel
• Yola:heel

• “hẹ̄le,n.(3).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

hele

1. Alternative form ofel

hele

1. definitesingular ofhel
2. plural ofhel

From the adjectivehel.

hele n (indeclinable)(uncountable)

1. awhole

FromOld Norseheila.

hele (imperativehel,present tenseheler,simple past and past participlehelaorhelet,present participlehelende)

1. toheal

FromMiddle Low Germanhelen.

hele (imperativehel,present tenseheler,simple pasthelaorheletorhelte,past participlehelaorheletorhelt,present participlehelende)

1. toreceivestolengoods

• “hele” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

FromMiddle Low Germanhelen.

• hela(a- and split infinitives)

hele (present tensehelar,past tensehela,past participlehela,passive infinitivehelast,present participlehelande,imperativehele/hel)

1. (transitive) tofence(toreceivestolengoods)

FromOld Norsehéla.

hele f (definite singularhela,indefinite pluralheler,definite pluralhelene)

1. hoarfrost

hele (present tensehelar,past tensehela,past participlehela,passive infinitivehelast,present participlehelande,imperativehele/hel)

1. torime

• “hele” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key):/ˈxe.le/,[ˈhe.le]
• IPA^(key):/ˈxeː.le/,[ˈheː.le]

hele

1. inflection ofhelan:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. singularpresentsubjunctive

hēle

1. inflection ofhēlan:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. singularpresentsubjunctive

• IPA^(key):/ˈele/[ˈe.le]
• Rhymes:-ele
• Syllabification:he‧le

hele

1. inflection ofhaber:
   1. second-personsingularimperative combined withle
   2. second-personsingular voseoimperative combined withle

hele

1. definitenatural masculinesingular ofhel

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈhele/[ˈhɛː.lɛ]
• Rhymes:-ele
• Syllabification:he‧le

hele (Baybayin spellingᜑᜒᜎᜒ)

1. lullaby

   Synonyms:oyayi,aloy,alo

2. act ofsinging alullaby(to make a child or infant fall asleep)

   Synonym:paghehele

3. caress;fondling
4. Alternative form ofhele-hele

• lambing

hele

1. knife

FromPersianهله(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.

• (especially):özellikle
• (at least):en azından
• (finally):sonunda

FromMiddle Englishhil, fromOld Englishhyll.

• hile,hill

• IPA^(key):/hiːl/,/hɪl/
• Homophones:heel,hyle

hele

1. hill
   • 1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Whithele.

     Whitehill.

• Whithele
• Vearnee-hile

hele

1. Alternative form ofheale(“health”)
   • 1867,GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Yerhele.

     Yourhealth (a toast).

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page45