411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Hell
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
hell he'll
English
+ (disambiguation)#Places
thumb|right|230px|Hell, near the Værnes airport in Stjørdal, Norway
Proper noun
en Hel.
en Hela.
en hell.
en 2016 Bill Porter The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan https://archive.org/details/silkroadtakingbu0000port/ Counterpoint (publisher) Counterpoint 978-1-61902-710-7 939390574 119 https://archive.org/details/silkroadtakingbu0000port/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.
en village mun:suf/Stjørdal co/Trøndelag c/Norway; was the administrative center of Lånke municipality, which existed until 1962.
en 1957 August H. A. Vallance By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic Railway Magazine 571 Officially the Nordland Railway begins at Hell, but popularly the whole route north of Trondheim is so called.
en locality x/West Bay x/Grand Cayman terr/Cayman Islands.
en ghost town co/Riverside County s/California c/USA.
en ucomm twp:Suf/Putnam co/Livingston County s/Michigan c/USA.
thumb|left|Hell, Michigan
Derived terms
en hell-brewed hellbred helldoomed Hellevator Hellward
en Afterlife Hell
Alemannic German
Etymology
From gsw gmh helle, from gsw goh hellia, from gsw gmw-pro *hallju. Cognate with de Hölle, nl hel, en hell, is hel.
Noun
gsw noun f
gsw Uri hell
References
14
gsw Philosophy Religion Mythology Death
Dutch
Etymology
First attested as in hello in the middle of the twelfth century. Presumably a compound of nl dum helle lowland, marshy area and dum lo light forest on sandy soil. An alternative interpretation reads the toponym as a compound of nl dum hel bright, clear and dum lo pool. Compare nl Helhuizen, nl Helwerd, nl Holwerd and nl Hulhuizen.
Pronunciation
nl /ɦɛl/
nl Hell
nl ɛl 1
nl hel
Proper noun
n
nl hamlet mun/Putten p/Gelderland c/Netherlands
References
East Central German
Etymology
gmw-ecg gem-pro 1
From gmw-ecg gmh helle, from gmw-ecg goh hella, goh hellia, from gmw-ecg gmw-pro *hallju, ultimately from gmw-ecg ine-pro *ḱel- to cover, hide, conceal.
Noun
gmw-ecg noun f
gmw-ecg Erzgebirgisch hell
gmw-ecg Afterlife Death Hell
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From pdc gmh helle, from pdc goh hellia, from pdc gmw-pro *hallju. Compare de Hölle, nl hel, en hell.
Noun
pdc noun f
hell