Where does “heller” come from?

heller (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse heldr, from Proto-Germanic *haldiz.

heller (Norwegian Bokmål): rather

Definitions

  1. rather

Ancestry of “heller”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norseheldrrather; inflection of halda: ## second-person...
2Proto-Germanic*haldiz—
Every word from Proto-Germanic *haldiz →Every word from Old Norse heldr →