different between healer vs heller

English

Etymology

From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal +? -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hi?l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hil?/
• Rhymes: -i?l?(r)

Noun

healer (plural healers)

1. One who heals, especially through faith.
2. Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.

Hyponyms

• faith healer
• medicine man
• quack
• quack doctor
• shaman
• witch doctor

Translations

Anagrams

• Harlee, reheal

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Heller. Doublet of halier.

Noun

heller (plural hellers)

1. (historical) A German coin equivalent to half a pfennig, later used widely as a small coin in Central Europe and the German Empire.
2. A subdivision of the Czech, Slovakian and Czechoslovakian koruna. 100 hellers make up one koruna.

Translations

Etymology 2

1890–95, Americanism; short for hell-raiser

Noun

heller (plural hellers)

1. A noisy, rowdy, troublesome person; hellion.

Anagrams

• here'll

Danish

Etymology 1

See hellere.

Adverb

heller

1. Obsolete spelling of hellere
   • 1843, Ludvig baron Holberg, Den danske Skueplads eller Ludwig Holbergs: samtlige Comodier i eet Bind, page 124

     Nei jeg vil heller være misundt, end foragtet.

   • 1907, Knut Hamsun, Samlede romaner og fortællinger: Folkeudgave

     Jeg vil heller — heller skære lidt Tænder uden Øl.

Etymology 2

Old Norse heldr

Adverb

heller

1. (negated) either

   Jeg har heller ikke noget bord.

   I do not have a table, either.

   Der er heller ingen læger her.

   There are no doctors here, either.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Adjective

heller

1. comparative degree of hell
2. inflection of helle:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Luxembourgish

Adjective

heller

1. feminine dative of hell

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heldr

Adverb

heller

1. rather

   heller ... enn - rather ... than

2. heller ikke - not ... either, neither

Etymology 2

Noun

heller m or f

1. indefinite plural of helle

Etymology 3

Verb

heller

1. present of helle

References

• “heller” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heldr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l??r/ (example of pronunciation)

Adverb

heller

1. comparative degree of gjerne

heller

1. rather

   heller ... enn - rather ... than

2. heller ikkje - not ... either, neither

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²h?l??r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

heller f

1. indefinite plural of helle

References

• “heller” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heldr.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: häller

Adverb

heller (not comparable)

1. neither (only in use together with a negative)

Anagrams

• hellre