health

== English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole, hale, or heal +‎ -th (abstract nominal suffix). More at heal. Doublet of wholth. ==== Alternative forms ==== helth, helthe, healthe (obsolete) ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: hĕlth, IPA(key): /hɛlθ/, [hɛl̪θ] Rhymes: -ɛlθ ==== Noun ==== health (usually uncountable, plural healths) The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.] A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level. Physical condition. (obsolete) Cure, remedy. [16th c. (Middle English: 11th–15th c.)] (countable) A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.] (video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== heal ===== Descendants ===== → Japanese: ヘルス (“prostitution without coitus”) → Korean: 헬스 (helseu, “working out in a gym”) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English heleð (“man, hero, fighter”), from Old English hæleþ (“man, hero, fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *haliþ, from Proto-Germanic *haliþaz (“man, hero”). Cognate with West Frisian held (“hero”), Dutch held (“hero”), German Held (“hero”), Norwegian Nynorsk hauld (“freeman”). ==== Noun ==== health (plural healths) (obsolete) A warrior; hero; man. === References === “health”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “health”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.