"Hel" meaning in English

See Hel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Hela [alternative], Hell [alternative]
Etymology: From Old Norse hel. Cognate with Old English hell (“hell”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|non|hel}} Old Norse hel, {{cog|ang|hell|t=hell}} Old English hell (“hell”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hel
  1. (religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða. Tags: Norse Synonyms (realm of the unheroic dead): Helheim
    Sense id: en-Hel-en-name-5RRWHwUW Categories (other): Norse mythology, Religion, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Gods, Norse deities Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 58 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Gods: 48 52 Disambiguation of Norse deities: 50 50 Topics: human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, religion, sciences Disambiguation of 'realm of the unheroic dead': 63 37
  2. (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). Tags: Norse Translations (realm of the dead): Hel (Danish), हेल (hel) [neuter] (Marathi), hell (Old English), Хель (Xelʹ) (Russian), Hel [neuter] (Swedish), Helhem [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Hel-en-name-0apg6rbN Categories (other): Norse mythology, Religion, English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Gods, Mythological locations, Norse deities Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Gods: 48 52 Disambiguation of Mythological locations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Norse deities: 50 50 Topics: human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, religion, sciences Disambiguation of 'realm of the dead': 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (goddess of the realm of the dead): Hel (Danish), Hel [feminine] (French), Hel [feminine] (Italian), Hela [feminine] (Italian), हेल (hel) [feminine] (Marathi), hell (Old English), Хель (Xelʹ) [feminine] (Russian), Hela [feminine] (Spanish), Hel (Swedish), Hel (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'goddess of the realm of the dead': 53 47

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.