Hel
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse hel. Cognate with Old English hell (“hell”).
Proper noun edit
Hel
- (religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.
- (religion, Norse mythology) The realm of the dead who did not die in combat, ruled by the goddess and located in Niflheim (one of the Nine Realms).
Synonyms edit
- (realm of the unheroic dead): Helheim
Translations edit
goddess of the realm of the dead
realm of the dead
Further reading edit
Hel (being) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Hel (location) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fólkvangr on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Valhalla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse hel (“hell”). More at Hel.
Proper noun edit
Hel
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse hel (“death, death realm”), whence also hel (“death”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Hel f
- (Norse mythology) Hel, the goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead
- Hypernyms: daudedis, daudenorne, daudemøy
Related terms edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From hyl or perhaps from Germanic.[1]
Proper noun edit
Hel m inan (related adjective helski)
- Hel (a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
- (colloquial) Hel Peninsula (a peninsula in Poland)
- Synonyms: Mierzeja Helska, Półwysep Helski
Declension edit
Declension of Hel
Derived terms edit
nouns
Etymology 2 edit
Learned borrowing from Old Norse Hel.
Proper noun edit
Hel f (indeclinable)
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun edit
Hel f
References edit
- ^ Kazimierz Rymut, Urszula Bijak, Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, editors (1999), “Hel”, in Nazwy miejscowe Polski: historia, pochodzenie, zmiany[1] (in Polish), volume 3, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Języka Polskiego PAN, →ISBN, page 471