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Asking as someone with a very shallow familiarity with Scandinavian languages: is there any connection to the Norwegian 'helvete', often translated to English a
by nkrisc 8y ago
Asking as someone with a very shallow familiarity with Scandinavian languages: is there any connection to the Norwegian 'helvete', often translated to English as 'Hell'?
EDIT: Adding this since I found it after asking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AHell,_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AHell,_Norway
Answer seems to be "probably not"
- atombender 8y ago"Helvete" comes from Old Norse helvíti, a combination of hel (death, also the land of the dead and the goddess Hel) + víti (punishment).