## Meanings
1. An aircraft with spinning blades on top that let it fly straight up, hover, and land without a runway.
2. To carry someone or something by helicopter.

## Examples
- We flew over the city in a helicopter.
- The injured climbers were helicoptered to the nearest hospital.

## Derived Forms
- antihelicopter
- copter
- heli
- heli-
- helichopper
- helicopterful
- helicoptering
- helicopterlike
- helicoptery
- heliport
- helitack
- helo

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *welH-

## Etymology
Borrowed from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”). Doublet of helicopteron. By surface analysis, helico- + -pter. The dragonfly sense is from a dragonfly's ability to hover and fly in any direction, like the flying machine.

## AI Etymology
Helicopter is borrowed from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”). Doublet of helicopteron. By surface analysis, helico- + -pter. The dragonfly sense is from a dragonfly's ability to hover and fly in any direction, like the flying machine. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. The historical line also includes *welH- (Proto-Indo-European). In current use, the main senses are “An aircraft with spinning blades on top that let it fly straight up, hover, and land without a runway” and “To carry someone or something by helicopter”.

## Topics
- Space, Position & Direction
- Verbs of Movement

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