helt
Danish
/hɛlˀt/, /hɛlˀt/, /heːˀlt/
noun
Definitions
- hero a person who shows great courage and carries out extraordinary deeds
- hero a person who helps other selflessly
- hero a rolemodel
- hero the protagonist in a narrative
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German helt (hero) derived from German Held (hero) inherited from Proto-Germanic *haliþaz (hero, man).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*haliþaz
Gloss
hero, man
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
男, 夫, 士
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Antiheld German
- Held German
- Heldentat German
- Heldentod German
- Heldin German
- Maulheld German
- Pantoffelheld German
- Revolverheld German
- Superheld German
- heldenhaft German
- heldisch German
- *haliþaz Proto-Germanic
- hjälte Swedish
- helt Norwegian Nynorsk
- hæleþ Old English
- heltinde Danish
- inde Danish
- krig Danish
- krigshelt Danish
- superhelt Danish
- sø Danish
- søhelt Danish
- tøffel Danish
- tøffelhelt Danish
- helid Old High German
- helt Middle High German
- *haliþ gmw-pro
- helt Old Dutch
- helt Middle Low German
- helid Old Saxon
- helith Old Saxon
- held Western Frisian