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English word hell comes from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-, and later Proto-Germanic *helaną (To hide, to conceal.)
*ḱer- (Proto-Indo-European)
*helaną (Proto-Germanic)
To hide, to conceal.
*haljō (Proto-Germanic)
The netherworld, the underworld, hell.
hell (Old English)
Hell.
helle (Middle English)
hell (English)
(countable) A place for gambling.. (countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.. (obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.. An extremely hot place.. In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.. Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun (impolite, [...]