hemmel

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛməl/

hemmel (plural hemmels)

1. (UK, dialect, Northumbria) A shed or hovel for cattle.
   • 1864, John Ewart, "The Profitable Management of Farms in the Vicinity of Large Towns", in The Farmer's Magazine June 1864

     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

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

• hēmel

From Old Saxon himil.

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

hemmel m

1. heaven, sky

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• 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
• → Westrobothnian: himmel, himel