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hell.

clear, bright, light

4 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

adj/hɛl/

  1. clear, bright, light

  2. quick, clever

    figuratively
    ein heller Verstand
    ein heller Kopf

  3. great

    emphatic · figuratively · intensifier
    helle Freude
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German hel (“resounding, loud, shining, bright”), from Old High German hel (“resounding”), from Proto-Germanic *halliz (“resounding”), from Proto-Germanic *hellaną (“to resound, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, make noise”). Cognate with Dutch hel.

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