"hele" meaning in Middle English

See hele in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈhɛːl(ə)/
Etymology: From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *hailī. Compare helen and hol (“whole”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|health}}, {{inh|enm|ang|hǣlu}} Old English hǣlu, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*hailī}} Proto-West Germanic *hailī Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} hele, {{enm-noun|-}} hele (uncountable) Forms: hale [alternative], heale [alternative], heel [alternative], heele [alternative], helle [alternative], hel [alternative], ȝel [alternative], ȝele [alternative], eale [alternative, Early-Middle-English], hæle [alternative, Early-Middle-English]
  1. Health or wellbeing; one's mental or physical condition. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-ltcPHMAa
  2. That which heals or cures; healing:
    (medicine) A curative medicine.
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-4I6FosRn Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. That which heals or cures; healing:
    (Christianity) Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-jWwgfJUD Categories (other): Christianity, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Anatomy, Emotions, Limbs, Money, Physiology Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 14 4 32 8 9 9 6 8 5 1 1 3 Disambiguation of Anatomy: 5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12 Disambiguation of Emotions: 15 3 39 9 14 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 Disambiguation of Limbs: 9 4 33 7 7 10 6 10 8 2 2 2 Disambiguation of Money: 0 0 45 0 0 9 31 12 1 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Physiology: 5 5 32 5 5 5 5 15 5 5 5 10 Topics: Christianity
  4. Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:
    Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind:
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-xJeEkdHB
  5. Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:
    Beneficence, kindness; kind behaviour.
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-zTDI37v9
  6. Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:
    (Christianity) Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-kVyDYo9s Categories (other): Christianity Topics: Christianity
  7. Success, wealth; a state of thriving. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-f8D1Gx0C
  8. Fortune; a favourable destiny. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-BqWpb381 Categories (other): Anatomy Disambiguation of Anatomy: 5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: goderhele, heleful, soule-hele
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈheːl(ə)/, /ˈhɛːl(ə)/ Forms: heles [plural], helen [plural], heele [alternative], heyle [alternative], heyll [alternative], hiele [alternative], hile [alternative]
Etymology: From Old English hēla, hǣla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Compare hough (“hough, hock”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|heel}}, {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro}}, {{inh|enm|ang|hēla}} Old English hēla, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*hą̄hilō}} Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} hele, {{enm-noun|heles|pl2=helen}} hele (plural heles or helen)
  1. heel (back of a foot) Synonyms: hough
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-h1Lpz0ci
  2. heel or spur (of a shoe)
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-tj93WUF7
  3. (rare) The lower part of anything. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-Ghbb4LWj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|altform=1}} hele
  1. Alternative form of el Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: el
    Sense id: en-hele-enm-noun-4psrd4ys Categories (other): Anatomy Disambiguation of Anatomy: 5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4139-4140",
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "health"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymid"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hǣlu"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hǣlu",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hailī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hailī",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *hailī. Compare helen and hol (“whole”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hale",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heale",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heel",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heele",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "helle",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hel",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝel",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ȝele",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eale",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hæle",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hele",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hele (uncountable)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "goderhele"
    },
    {
      "word": "heleful"
    },
    {
      "word": "soule-hele"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "That shul ben for your hele, and for your prow;’ [...]\n… ‘I shall myself guide you to herbs,\nThat shall be for your health and for your benefit;’ …",
          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4139-4140",
          "text": "[...] ‘I shal my-self to herbes techen yow,",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Health or wellbeing; one's mental or physical condition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Health",
          "health"
        ],
        [
          "wellbeing",
          "wellbeing"
        ],
        [
          "condition",
          "condition"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "enm:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which heals or cures; healing:",
        "A curative medicine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heal",
          "heal"
        ],
        [
          "cure",
          "cure"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "curative",
          "curative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "That which heals or cures; healing:",
        "(medicine) A curative medicine."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "enm:Christianity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which heals or cures; healing:",
        "Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heal",
          "heal"
        ],
        [
          "cure",
          "cure"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "Jesus Christ",
          "Jesus Christ"
        ],
        [
          "Saviour",
          "Saviour#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "That which heals or cures; healing:",
        "(Christianity) Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
        "Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ],
        [
          "beneficial",
          "beneficial"
        ],
        [
          "Security",
          "security"
        ],
        [
          "solace",
          "solace"
        ],
        [
          "protect",
          "protect"
        ],
        [
          "mind",
          "mind"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
        "Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind:"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
        "Beneficence, kindness; kind behaviour."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ],
        [
          "beneficial",
          "beneficial"
        ],
        [
          "Beneficence",
          "beneficence"
        ],
        [
          "kindness",
          "kindness"
        ],
        [
          "kind",
          "kind"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "enm:Christianity"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
        "Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assistance",
          "assistance"
        ],
        [
          "beneficial",
          "beneficial"
        ],
        [
          "Christianity",
          "Christianity"
        ],
        [
          "Salvation",
          "salvation"
        ],
        [
          "deliverance",
          "deliverance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
        "(Christianity) Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Christianity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Success, wealth; a state of thriving."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "thriving",
          "thriving"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Fortune; a favourable destiny."
      ],
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        [
          "Fortune",
          "fortune"
        ],
        [
          "favourable",
          "favourable"
        ],
        [
          "destiny",
          "destiny"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hele"
}

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    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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    "Pages with entries",
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    "enm:Emotions",
    "enm:Limbs",
    "enm:Money",
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
            "1": "en",
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          },
          "expansion": "English: heel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: heel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
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          },
          "expansion": "Scots: heel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: heel"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
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          },
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        }
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    }
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  "etymology_number": 2,
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      },
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      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      },
      "expansion": "Old English hēla",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hą̄hilō"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English hēla, hǣla, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō. Compare hough (“hough, hock”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "helen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heele",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heyle",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heyll",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hiele",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hile",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hele",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "heles",
        "pl2": "helen"
      },
      "expansion": "hele (plural heles or helen)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "heel (back of a foot)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heel",
          "heel"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hough"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "heel or spur (of a shoe)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heel",
          "heel"
        ],
        [
          "spur",
          "spur"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The lower part of anything."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The lower part of anything."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈheːl(ə)/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hele"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Pages with 17 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Anatomy",
    "enm:Emotions",
    "enm:Limbs",
    "enm:Money",
    "enm:Physiology"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "noun",
        "altform": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "hele",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "el"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of el"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "el",
          "el#Middle_English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hele"
}

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