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"Zhimin beijing xia de xuanjiao — shiqi shiji helan gaige zongjiaohui de Xilayazu" 殖民背景下的宣教-十七世紀荷蘭改革宗教會的西拉雅族.
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En la tago ni vidas la helan sunon, kaj en la nokto ni vidas la palan lunon kaj la belajn stelojn.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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In Anglo-Saxon, helan = to cover, and hell = a covered place.
The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson
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Malrapide la krepusko anstatauxas la helan sunlumon, kaj fine cxie noktigxas.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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From a helan away on both sides of me I saw other wedges of our men coming slanting in to assail the same point; overhead a corps of girls was hovering.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
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The area of magnetism seemed to spread for a helan or more.
Tarrano the Conqueror Ray Cummings 1922
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It is a substantive formed from the Anglo-Saxon helan or behelian, "to hide".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Derived from the Saxon helan, to cover; hence the covered or the invisible place.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Turning from fancy to fact, the word Hele, from which the stone takes its name, is probably derived from the Anglo-Saxon verb _helan_ = "to conceal," and is so applied to the stone because it conceals the sun at rising on the day of the Summer Solstice.
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday Frank Stevens 1896
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Sax. helan, to cover.v. Lye in Junii Etym.v. Hull.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
Prolagus commented on the word helan
(Old English) To hide or conceal. Vide hele.
November 16, 2008