heilsa

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse heilsa. === Noun === heilsa f (genitive singular heilsu, plural heilsur) health greeting ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (greeting): heilsan, kvøða === Verb === heilsa (third person singular past indicative heilsaði, third person plural past indicative heilsað, supine heilsað) to greet ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === "heilsa" at Sprotin.fo == Icelandic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈheilsa/ === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse heilsa. ==== Noun ==== heilsa f (genitive singular heilsu, no plural) health ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== vera við góða heilsu vera við slæma heilsu ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== heilsa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative heilsaði, supine heilsað) to greet ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== biðja að heilsa == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hailisōną (“to greet, salute”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. === Noun === heilsa f health ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: heilsa Faroese: heilsa Norwegian Nynorsk: helse, helsa, heilsa Norwegian Bokmål: helse Old Swedish: hēlsa, hælsaSwedish: hälsa Old Danish: helsæ Danish: helsen Scanian: hælsa → Middle English: hailsen, haylsen Scots: hailse, helse === Verb === heilsa to greet ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: heilsa Faroese: heilsa Norwegian Nynorsk: helsa; (dialectal) heilse, heⁱsj, hæsj Swedish: hälsa Danish: hilse Norwegian Bokmål: hilse === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “heilsa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive