health

Meaning

Noun

• The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
• 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.
• in shape, in forme.
• Cure, remedy.
• A toast to prosperity.
• The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
• A warrior; hero; man.

Origin

• From Middle English helþe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz ("whole, hale"). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole + -th, hale + -th, or heal + -th. More at heal.
• 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").