heli

heli (plural helis)

1. Clipping of helicopter.
   • 1990 September, “Helicopter section”, in Model Airplane News, page 91:

     HERE’S A GREAT shot of our author Dave Ramsey, who seems to be doing the impossible—flying two helis simultaneously! Actually, he isnt’t; a flying buddy maneuvered his machine into the shot, just to create the illusion.

   • 2010, Bob Shepherd, M. P. Sabga, The Infidel, Simon & Schuster, published 2011, →ISBN, page 175:

     ‘We saw two helis flying north a few weeks back,’ John offered. ‘An Apache and a Chinook. We figured they were hunting al-Qaeda.’

   • 2011, Chris Ryan, Killing for the Company, Coronet, →ISBN, page 308:

     Two helis, both coming in sharp and from a great height. One looked like a Puma; the other, smaller and hovering just above and behind in a chaperone position, was clearly an Apache.

• copter

• -copter (and derivatives therefrom)
• heli- (and derivatives therefrom)

heli

1. plural of helus

From New Latin helium.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɛ.li]

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heli m (uncountable)

1. helium

Clipping of helikopter.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeːli/
• Hyphenation: he‧li

heli m (plural heli's, diminutive helietje n)

1. chopper

Same root as in hele. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

heli (genitive heli, partitive heli)

1. sound
2. (music) note, tone

• helikaart
• helilaad
• helilaine
• helilooja

• “heli”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

heli

1. (chiefly Northern) alternative form of holy (sacred)

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Kielce) IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.li/

heli

1. (Kielce) alternative form of jeżeli

   Heli zgadnies, co mám w garści, to ci dam. ― If you guess what I have in my hand, then I'll give it to you.

• Władysław Siarkowski (1891) “heli”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 336

• helli

From Mongolian гуул (guul), гуули (guuli, “copper”).^[1]

• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /heli/, /helli/
• (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /heːle/
• (Dazhuang, Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /xeːli/
• (Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /hælli/, /hællæ/, /helle/

heli

1. money

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “heli”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 224, 333
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “heli”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[2], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 11
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “heli”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[3], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, pages 111-112
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “heli”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 133
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “heli”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 280

heli class IX (plural heli class X)

1. alternative form of heliamu (“helium”)

heli

1. to hide

From Proto-Oceanic *keli, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *keli, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

• IPA^(key): /ɣeli/

heli

1. to dig

• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

Ultimately from New Latin helium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [he˧˧ li˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hej˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hej˧˧ lɪj˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: hê li

heli

1. helium

From Proto-Brythonic *hal, from Proto-Celtic *sālos (“salt water”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈheːli/, /ˈhɛli/

heli m (not mutable)

1. salt water, brine, saline

   Synonym: dŵr hallt

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “heli”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies