heal

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /hiːl/ (US) IPA(key): /hil/ Homophones: heel, he'll (in some accents) Rhymes: -iːl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole. ==== Verb ==== heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed) (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. (intransitive) To become better or healthy again. (transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. to heal dissensions to heal a broken heart ===== Synonyms ===== (make better): cure, make whole (become better): get better, recover ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Dutch: healen ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals) (roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment. (roleplaying games, video games, in the plural) Healing; an instance of restoration of health or hit points. (obsolete, uncountable) health ===== Derived terms ===== healslut === Etymology 2 === See hele. ==== Verb ==== heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healing, simple past and past participle healed) (rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”). === Anagrams === Aleh, Hale, Hela, Leah, hale == Estonian == === Adjective === heal adessive singular of hea == Scots == === Etymology 1 === From Early Scots helen, helien, from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”, strong verb) and helian (“to conceal, cover, hide”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *helan, from Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to conceal, stash, receive stolen goods”) and Proto-Germanic *haljaną (“to hull, conceal”); both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide”). ==== Verb ==== heal (third-person singular simple present heals, present participle healin, simple past and past participle healt) (transitive) to hide, conceal, and keep secret === Etymology 2 === From Old English hǣlth, from or related to Proto-West Germanic *hail. ==== Noun ==== heal (uncountable) (obsolete) health === References === “heal, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC. “hele, heil(l, v.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Old Frisian half, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɪə̯l/ === Adjective === heal half ==== Inflection ==== This adjective needs an inflection-table template. ==== Further reading ==== “heal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 == Yola == === Noun === heal alternative form of heale === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45