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Re: The etymology of the German Hell...

Subject: Re: The etymology of the German Hell...
From: "Alan"
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:07:51 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.lang
"Heidi Graw"   wrote
>>"izzy"   wrote Consider the (probably borrowed into) Hebrew noun 
>>heh-lamed-heh
>
> As in heh-lamed-heh...hehlame-heh...hehlame...hehla...hella..Hella! 
> Hmmm...an interesting thought, Izzy!  ;-)

(and I bet izzy thought he was avoiding confusion by spelling it out) 



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