different between helve vs hele

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?l/

Etymology 1

Verb

hele

1. Obsolete form of heal.

Etymology 2

From Middle English helen, helien, from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”, strong verb) and helian (“to conceal, cover, hide”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *helan, from Proto-Germanic *helan? (“to conceal, stash, receive stolen goods”) and Proto-Germanic *haljan? (“to hull, conceal”); both from Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to hide”).

Cognate with Scots heal (“to cover, hide, conceal”), Saterland Frisian hela (“to conceal”), Dutch helen (“to conceal”), German hehlen (“to deal in stolen or illegal goods”), Swedish häla (“hide”) and hälare (“fence, peddler of stolen goods”), as well as with helmet and Latin c?l? (“conceal”). Related to hole, hull.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?l/

Verb

hele (third-person singular simple present heles, present participle heling, simple past and past participle heled)

1. (rare, now chiefly dialectal or archaic) To hide, conceal, and keep secret, especially for a secret society (such as the masons).

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

   • 1921, The Builder: A Journal for the Masonic Student, page 208:

     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, page 36:

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

2. (rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).
   • 1861, The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 275:

     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 and heled in, in a safe place, where there is no danger from standing water.

   • 1895, Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of American Grape Vines, by the Bush & Son & Meissner firm of vinegrowers in Bushberg, Mo., page 43:

     Take your vines, in a pail with water, or wrapped in a wet cloth, from the place where they were heled-in,* to the holes; […]

     *On receiving your vines from the nursery, they should be taken out of the box, without dely, and heled-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.

Alternative forms

• heal, heel

References

• Notes on Hele

Anagrams

• Ehle, Heel, heel

Danish

Adjective

hele

1. plural and definite singular attributive of hel

Verb

hele (imperative hel, infinitive at hele, present tense heler, past tense helede, perfect tense er helet)

1. (intransitive) heal

   Såret er helet.

   The wound has healed.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?l?
• IPA^(key): /??e?.l?/

Etymology 1

From heel, by analogy with the inflection of adjectives that follow.

Adverb

hele

1. Alternative form of heel
   • 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.

Usage notes

See the usage notes at the main entry.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

hele

1. Inflected form of heel

Verb

hele

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of helen

Anagrams

• heel

Esperanto

Etymology

hela +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he.le/

Adverb

hele

1. brightly

Estonian

Etymology

Of Finnic origin. Cognate to Finnish heleä.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?hele/

Adjective

hele (genitive heleda, partitive heledat)

1. light

   heledad juuksed — light hair

   helesinine — light blue

2. high-pitched, high (of tone)

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

< helistä

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hele?/, [?he?le?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ele
• Syllabification: he?le

Noun

hele

1. (music) ornament

Declension

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *sa‘ele and Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *sele.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he.le/, [?h?l?]

Verb

hele

1. (intransitive) to walk, move

References

• Hawaiian Dictionary, by Pukui and Elbert

Middle English

Noun

hele

1. Alternative form of ele

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Adjective

hele

1. definite singular of hel
2. plural of hel

Etymology 2

From the adjective hel

Noun

hele n (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. a whole

Etymology 3

From Old Norse heila

Verb

hele (imperative hel, present tense heler, simple past and past participle hela or helet, present participle helende)

1. to heal

Etymology 4

From Middle Low German helen

Verb

hele (imperative hel, present tense heler, simple past hela or helet or helte, past participle hela or helet or helt, present participle helende)

1. to receive stolen goods

References

• “hele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German helen.

Alternative forms

• (a- and split infinitives) hela

Verb

hele (present tense helar, past tense hela, past participle hela, passive infinitive helast, present participle helande, imperative hel)

1. (transitive) to fence (to receive stolen goods)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse héla.

Noun

hele f (definite singular hela, indefinite plural heler, definite plural helene)

1. hoarfrost

Verb

hele (present tense helar, past tense hela, past participle hela, passive infinitive helast, present participle helande, imperative hel)

1. to rime

References

• “hele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Adjective

hele

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of hel.

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ???? (hala, “pay attention!”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [he?le]

Adverb

hele

1. especially

2. (when modifying a verb in the imperative mood) just

3. at least

4. finally

Synonyms

• (especially): özellikle

Yola

Etymology 1

From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll.

Noun

hele

1. hill

Etymology 2

Noun

hele

1. Alternative form of heale

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN