See hele in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "heal" }, "expansion": "English: heal", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "English: heal" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "heal", "3": "hele" }, "expansion": "Scots: heal, hele", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Scots: heal, hele" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "heale", "alts": "1" }, "expansion": "Yola: heale, heall, heal, hele", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Yola: heale, heall, heal, hele" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "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" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "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": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "goderhele" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "heleful" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "soule-hele" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [], "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." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-ltcPHMAa", "links": [ [ "Health", "health" ], [ "wellbeing", "wellbeing" ], [ "condition", "condition" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Medicine", "orig": "enm:Medicine", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "That which heals or cures; healing:", "A curative medicine." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-4I6FosRn", "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": [ { "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Christianity", "orig": "enm:Christianity", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "14 4 32 8 9 9 6 8 5 1 1 3", "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Anatomy", "orig": "enm:Anatomy", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "15 3 39 9 14 3 3 3 3 2 2 3", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Emotions", "orig": "enm:Emotions", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "9 4 33 7 7 10 6 10 8 2 2 2", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Limbs", "orig": "enm:Limbs", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "0 0 45 0 0 9 31 12 1 0 0 0", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Money", "orig": "enm:Money", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "5 5 32 5 5 5 5 15 5 5 5 10", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Physiology", "orig": "enm:Physiology", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "That which heals or cures; healing:", "Jesus Christ (as the Saviour)" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-jWwgfJUD", "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" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-xJeEkdHB", "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." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-zTDI37v9", "links": [ [ "assistance", "assistance" ], [ "beneficial", "beneficial" ], [ "Beneficence", "beneficence" ], [ "kindness", "kindness" ], [ "kind", "kind" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Christianity", "orig": "enm:Christianity", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Help or assistance; that which is beneficial:", "Salvation, deliverance (from Hell)" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-kVyDYo9s", "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." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-f8D1Gx0C", "links": [ [ "Success", "success" ], [ "wealth", "wealth" ], [ "thriving", "thriving" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Anatomy", "orig": "enm:Anatomy", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Fortune; a favourable destiny." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-BqWpb381", "links": [ [ "Fortune", "fortune" ], [ "favourable", "favourable" ], [ "destiny", "destiny" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/" } ], "word": "hele" } { "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "English: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "English: heel" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "Scots: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Scots: heel" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "Yola: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Yola: heel" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "", "name": "etymid" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gmw-pro" }, "expansion": "", "name": "dercat" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "ang", "3": "hēla" }, "expansion": "Old English hēla", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*hą̄hilō" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō", "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" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "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)" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-h1Lpz0ci", "links": [ [ "heel", "heel" ] ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "hough" } ] }, { "glosses": [ "heel or spur (of a shoe)" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-tj93WUF7", "links": [ [ "heel", "heel" ], [ "spur", "spur" ] ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "The lower part of anything." ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-Ghbb4LWj", "raw_glosses": [ "(rare) The lower part of anything." ], "tags": [ "rare" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈheːl(ə)/" }, { "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/" } ], "word": "hele" } { "etymology_number": 3, "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "noun", "altform": "1" }, "expansion": "hele", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "el" } ], "categories": [ { "_dis": "5 5 21 5 6 6 6 20 5 4 4 12", "kind": "other", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Anatomy", "orig": "enm:Anatomy", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of el" ], "id": "en-hele-enm-noun-4psrd4ys", "links": [ [ "el", "el#Middle_English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "hele" }
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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" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "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." ], "links": [ [ "Fortune", "fortune" ], [ "favourable", "favourable" ], [ "destiny", "destiny" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈhɛːl(ə)/" } ], "word": "hele" } { "categories": [ "Middle English alternative forms", "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English lemmas", "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", "Pages with 17 entries", "Pages with entries", "enm:Anatomy", "enm:Emotions", "enm:Limbs", "enm:Money", "enm:Physiology" ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "English: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "English: heel" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "sco", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "Scots: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Scots: heel" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "yol", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "Yola: heel", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "Yola: heel" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "heel" }, "expansion": "", "name": "etymid" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gmw-pro" }, "expansion": "", "name": "dercat" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "ang", "3": "hēla" }, "expansion": "Old English hēla", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "gmw-pro", "3": "*hą̄hilō" }, "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hilō", "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" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "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" } { "categories": [ "Middle English alternative forms", "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, "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "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" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "hele" }
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