different between hemmel vs whemmel

English

Etymology

From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven.

Noun

hemmel (plural hemmels)

1. (Britain, dialect, Northumbria) A shed or hovel for cattle.

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Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• hêmel

Etymology

From Old Saxon himil.

Pronunciation

• (uncertain) IPA^(key): /hem??l/ or IPA^(key): /h?m??l/

Noun

hemmel m

1. heaven, sky

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• German Low German:

  Ostfriesisch (East Frisian Low Saxon): Hemel, Himmel

  Westphalian:

  Dortmundisch: Hi?mel

  Lippisch, Ravensbergisch, Westmünsterländisch: Hemmel

  Sauerländisch: Hiemel, Heämel (Wenden)

  Westmünsterländisch: Himmel

• Plautdietsch: Himmel
• ? Norwegian: himmel
• ? Old Swedish: himil
  • Swedish: himmel
    • ? Finnish: himmeli
• ? Old Danish: *himæl
  • Danish: himmel
• ? Gutnish: himmel
• ? Westrobothnian: himmel, himel

English

Etymology

A frequentative form of whelm equivalent to whelm +? -le, or formed from that word by metathesis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?(h)w?m(?)l/
• Hyphenation: whem?mel

Verb

whemmel (third-person singular simple present whemmels, present participle whemmeling or whemmeling, simple past and past participle whemmeled or whemmeled)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To engulf, to submerge.

   Synonym: whelm

2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

   Synonym: whelm

3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, transitive) To turn (something) upside down, to invert; to capsize, to overturn; (specifically) to drink a glass (of an alcoholic beverage) completely.
4. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, transitive, figuratively) To confound, to disrupt.
5. (Britain dialectal, Scotland, intransitive) To capsize; to walk clumsily; to fall over.

Noun

whemmel (plural whemmels)

1. An overthrow, an overturn.

Alternative forms

• whammel, whemmle, whomble, whommle, whummel, whummle

References

Anagrams

• whemmle