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},
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},
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"text": "Yola: heale, heall, heal, hele"
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"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,",
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],
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"That which heals or cures; healing:",
"A curative medicine."
],
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"Society",
"All topics",
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"All topics",
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"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
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"Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)"
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[
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"Jesus Christ"
],
[
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"Saviour#English"
]
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],
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]
},
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind:",
"Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind"
],
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"assistance",
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],
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"beneficial",
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],
[
"Security",
"security"
],
[
"solace",
"solace"
],
[
"protect",
"protect"
],
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"mind",
"mind"
]
],
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Beneficence, kindness; kind behaviour."
],
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"beneficial",
"beneficial"
],
[
"Beneficence",
"beneficence"
],
[
"kindness",
"kindness"
],
[
"kind",
"kind"
]
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]
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"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
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}
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)"
],
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"Salvation",
"salvation"
],
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]
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],
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},
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"Success, wealth; a state of thriving."
],
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[
"Success",
"success"
],
[
"wealth",
"wealth"
],
[
"thriving",
"thriving"
]
],
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"uncountable"
]
},
{
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"Fortune; a favourable destiny."
],
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[
"Fortune",
"fortune"
],
[
"favourable",
"favourable"
],
[
"destiny",
"destiny"
]
],
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]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
}
],
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"word": "hale"
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{
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "heel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "helle"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ȝel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "ȝele"
},
{
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"word": "hæle"
},
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],
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},
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],
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"tags": [
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]
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}
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{
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{
"_dis": "5 25 20 2 2 4 3 3 31 2 2 2",
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"Sciences",
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"heel",
"heel"
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],
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"(rare) The lower part of anything."
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}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈheːl(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
}
],
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},
{
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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},
{
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"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "el"
}
],
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"Alternative form of el"
],
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"el",
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"Middle English nouns",
"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",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle English uncountable nouns",
"enm:Anatomy",
"enm:Emotions",
"enm:Limbs",
"enm:Money",
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}
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"name": "inh"
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"id": "to heal"
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"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"
}
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"wellbeing",
"wellbeing"
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"condition",
"condition"
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"That which heals or cures; healing:",
"A curative medicine."
],
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"cure",
"cure"
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"medicine",
"medicine"
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"curative"
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"That which heals or cures; healing:",
"(medicine) A curative medicine."
],
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],
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"medicine",
"sciences"
]
},
{
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],
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"That which heals or cures; healing:",
"Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)"
],
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"heal",
"heal"
],
[
"cure",
"cure"
],
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"Jesus Christ",
"Jesus Christ"
],
[
"Saviour",
"Saviour#English"
]
],
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"That which heals or cures; healing:",
"(Christianity) Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)"
],
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],
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"Christianity"
]
},
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind:",
"Security, solace; that which protects one or one's mind"
],
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],
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"beneficial",
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"Security",
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"solace",
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"protect",
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"mind",
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
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"uncountable"
]
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{
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Beneficence, kindness; kind behaviour."
],
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"assistance",
"assistance"
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[
"beneficial",
"beneficial"
],
[
"Beneficence",
"beneficence"
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[
"kindness",
"kindness"
],
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"kind",
"kind"
]
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"uncountable"
]
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{
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"enm:Christianity"
],
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
"Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)"
],
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[
"assistance",
"assistance"
],
[
"beneficial",
"beneficial"
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"Salvation",
"salvation"
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[
"deliverance",
"deliverance"
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"Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:",
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"uncountable"
],
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"Christianity"
]
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{
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"Success, wealth; a state of thriving."
],
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"Success",
"success"
],
[
"wealth",
"wealth"
],
[
"thriving",
"thriving"
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"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Fortune; a favourable destiny."
],
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[
"Fortune",
"fortune"
],
[
"favourable",
"favourable"
],
[
"destiny",
"destiny"
]
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"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
}
],
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{
"word": "hale"
},
{
"word": "heale"
},
{
"word": "heel"
},
{
"word": "heele"
},
{
"word": "helle"
},
{
"word": "hel"
},
{
"word": "ȝel"
},
{
"word": "ȝele"
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{
"sense": "early",
"word": "eale"
},
{
"word": "hæle"
}
],
"word": "hele"
}
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"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
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"Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
"Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"enm:Anatomy",
"enm:Emotions",
"enm:Limbs",
"enm:Money",
"enm:Physiology"
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"2": "heel"
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"expansion": "English: heel",
"name": "desc"
}
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"2": "heel"
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"name": "dercat"
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"2": "ang",
"3": "hēla"
},
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "hǣla"
},
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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{
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"2": "hough",
"id": "hough",
"t": "hough, hock"
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}
],
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"form": "heles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "helen",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"2": "nouns",
"g": "",
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"name": "head"
},
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],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"heel (back of a foot)"
],
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[
"heel",
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]
],
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{
"word": "hough"
}
]
},
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"glosses": [
"heel or spur (of a shoe)"
],
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[
"heel",
"heel"
],
[
"spur",
"spur"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The lower part of anything."
],
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"(rare) The lower part of anything."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈheːl(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/"
}
],
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{
"word": "heele"
},
{
"word": "heyle"
},
{
"word": "heyll"
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{
"word": "hiele"
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{
"word": "hile"
}
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"word": "hele"
}
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"Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Middle English lemmas",
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"enm:Emotions",
"enm:Limbs",
"enm:Money",
"enm:Physiology"
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"2": "noun"
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"name": "head"
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"word": "el"
}
],
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"Alternative form of el"
],
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[
"el",
"el#Middle English"
]
],
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"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "hele"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.
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