Hell (place where sinners go after death according to some religions) · hell (place or circumstance associated with great suffering)
çekim: çoğul helveten · tamlayan helvetes
köken: From Old Swedish hælvīte, from Old Norse helvíti, from hel (itself from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”)) + víti. In old Norse mythology, the god Loke had a daughter called Hel, who ruled the death realm, Niefelheim. Helvete is a combination of her name and the Old Norse word víti, meaning "punishment". Helvete thus means, the punishment…
köken: Inherited from Old Czech kurva, from Proto-Slavic *kury. Parallel with Macedonian курва (kurva) (whence курваница (kurvanica), a natively formed term for “brothel” (and many other terms), see nevěstinec).