hemmel

English

Etymology

From Scots hemmel, hammel, dialectal English hemble (“hovel, stable, shed”), perhaps allied to Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy”), German Himmel. Compare English heaven.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɛməl/

Noun

hemmel (plural hemmels)

  1. (UK, dialect, Northumbria) A shed or hovel for cattle.
    • 1864 June, John Ewart, “The Profitable Management of Farms in the Vicinity of Large Towns”, in The Farmer's Magazine:
      Cattle kept in hemmels should always have their food may be stated that the roofs of all the buildings should given to them in the sheds

References
  • hemmel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Saxon himil.

Pronunciation
  • (uncertain) IPA(key): /hemːəl/ or IPA(key): /hɛmːəl/

Noun

hemmel m

  1. heaven, sky

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • German Low German:
    Ostfriesisch (East Frisian Low Saxon): Hemel, Himmel
    Westphalian:
    Dortmundisch: Hiəmel
    Lippisch, Ravensbergisch, Westmünsterländisch: Hemmel
    Sauerländisch: Hiemel, Heämel (Wenden)
    Westmünsterländisch: Himmel
  • Plautdietsch: Himmel
  • → Norwegian: himmel
  • → Old Swedish: himil
  • → Old Danish: *himæl
  • → Gutnish: himmel
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