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An alternative derivation < the Germanic base of Old Icelandic hella flat stone, hallr stone, boulder, hill, Gothic hallus rock (of uncertain [[origin]], perhaps ultimately < the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_European_languages Indo-European] base as HILL n.), suggesting that the underworld was imagined as covered by a stone, is not generally accepted.

An alternative derivation < the Germanic base of Old Icelandic hella flat stone, hallr stone, boulder, hill, Gothic hallus rock (of uncertain [[origin]], perhaps ultimately < the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_European_languages Indo-European] base as HILL n.), suggesting that the underworld was imagined as covered by a stone, is not generally accepted.

*Before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]

*Before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century 12th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1a (1) : a nether world in which the [[dead]] continue to exist : hades (2) : the nether realm of the [[devil]] and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment —often used in [[curses]] <go to hell> or as a generalized term of [[abuse]] <the hell with it>  

*1a (1) : a nether world in which the [[dead]] continue to exist : hades (2) : the nether realm of the [[devil]] and the demons in which the damned suffer everlasting punishment —often used in [[curses]] <go to hell> or as a generalized term of [[abuse]] <the hell with it>