hemmel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməl/

Etymology 1

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

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Compare dialectal Swedish hammel (“little bar or beam”).

Noun

hemmel (plural hemmels)

1. (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) A handrail, especially one fitted on one side of a planked or wooden bridge.
   • 1989, Ken Radford, Fire Burn, page 50:

     The bridge was narrow, with barely enough room for one to cross at a time. So they barred her way, the leader clutching the hemmel (handrail) on either side.

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• hēmel

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
  • Swedish: himmel
    • → Finnish: himmeli
• → Old Danish: *himæl
  • Danish: himmel
• → Gutnish: himmel