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helt.

hero (a person who shows great courage and carries out extraordinary deeds)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/hɛlˀt/[ˈhɛlˀd̥]

  1. hero (a person who shows great courage and carries out extraordinary deeds)

    common-gender

  2. hero (a person who helps other selflessly)

    common-gender

  3. hero (a rolemodel)

    common-gender

  4. hero (the protagonist in a narrative)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German helt (“hero”) or German Held (“hero”), from Proto-Germanic *haliþaz (“hero”).

noun/hɛlˀt/[ˈhɛlˀd̥]

  1. whitefish (especially the species Coregonus lavaretus).

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish hielth, possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *heltą (“hilt”).

adv/heːˀlt/[ˈheˀld̥]

  1. completely, altogether, quite, fully, totally, absolutely

  2. quite, fairly

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