Hülle

See also: hulle, huelle, and hülle

German

Etymology

From Middle High German hülle, from Old High German hulla, derived from the verb hullen (whence modern hüllen), from Proto-West Germanic *hulljan, from Proto-Germanic *huljaną. Related with English hull, though not immediately cognate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhʏlə]

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• Hyphenation: Hül‧le
• Rhymes: -ʏlə

Noun

Hülle f (genitive Hülle, plural Hüllen)

1. covering, wrapping
2. case, sheath

   Synonym: Hülse

3. husk (useless, dried-up, worthless exterior)
4. mantle (anything that covers or conceals something else)
5. shell (any hollow structure; framework, or exterior structure)
6. cladding (hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection)
7. (aeronautics) envelope (bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship)
8. (chemistry) shell (set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number)
9. (mathematics) closure (smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property)

Declension

Declension of Hülle [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Hülle	die	Hüllen
genitive	einer	der	Hülle	der	Hüllen
dative	einer	der	Hülle	den	Hüllen
accusative	eine	die	Hülle	die	Hüllen

Derived terms

• CD-Hülle f (“jewel case (CD cover)”)
• enthüllen (“to unveil, reveal”)
• Erdhülle (“geosphere”)
• Hüllblatt (“involucre”)
• hüllen (“to wrap, drape, cover”)
• Hüllenelektron (“shell electron”)
• Hüllkelch
• Hüllkurve (“envelope (geometry)”)
• Hüllwort (“euphemism”)
• in Hülle und Fülle (“in abundance”)
• Lufthülle (“atmosphere”)

 

Further reading

• “Hülle” in Duden online
• “Hülle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache