different between elve vs helve

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

elve (plural elves)

1. (astronomy, meteorology) an upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occur high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity
2. Obsolete form of elf.

   Sir Olof he rode out at early day, / And so came he unto an Elve-dance gay.

See also

• blue starter
• bluejet
• gigantic jet
• gnome
• pixie
• red sprite
• sprelve
• sprite halo
• sprite
• transient luminous events
• troll
• upward lightning

Anagrams

• EVEL, elev., veel, vele

Hungarian

Etymology

elv +? -e (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??lv?]
• Hyphenation: el?ve

Noun

elve

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of elv

Declension

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elve/

Etymology

From French élever.

Adjective

elve

1. high

   Synonym: ot

Verb

elve (medial form elve)

1. to raise
2. to heighten
3. to bring up

Related terms

• elevasion

English

Etymology

From Middle English helfe, helve; from Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/
• Rhymes: -?lv

Noun

helve (plural helves)

1. The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.
   • 1917, Robert Frost, The Ax-helve:

     It was the bad ax-helve someone had sold me— / “Made on machine,” he said, plowing the grain […]

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     The eyelet in the rose pilleum of his glans welled a clear bead that silled under the corona, wound the veinclomb helve, and ran a snailtrack down the thrum and ridge of the underduct.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 847:

     Happily they were only sketchily armed, the group-leaders carried pistols and pick-helves.

2. A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Translations

Verb

helve (third-person singular simple present helves, present participle helving, simple past and past participle helved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

Finnish

(index he)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *helbeh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (whence Old High German helwa, helawa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hel?e?/, [?he?l?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -el?e
• Syllabification: hel?ve

Noun

helve

1. (botany) lodicule

Declension

Latin

Adjective

helve

1. vocative masculine singular of helvus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hylve, helfe, hilve, halve, alffe, hellfe

Etymology

From Old English helfe, from Proto-Germanic *halbiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?lv/, /h?lf/, /hilv/

Noun

helve

1. helve (grip of an implement)

Descendants

• English: helve
• Scots: helf

References

• “helve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-06.