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heil

See also: Heil and Héil

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Heil. Doublet of whole, hail, and hale.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /haɪl/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪl

Verb edit

heil (third-person singular simple present heils, present participle heiling, simple past and past participle heiled)

  1. To greet with a Sieg Heil.

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Noun edit

heil (plural heils)

  1. A Sieg Heil.
    • 1937, Pathfinder, volume 44, Farm Journal, Incorporated, page 15, column 1:
      Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens.
    • 1938, Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings Before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Seventy-Fifth Congress, Third Session, on H. Res. 282, volume 1, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 1123:
      Health, Hitler, heils, and hatred are the “four H’s” used by United States Nazis to prevent Americanization of children whose parents are members of the German-American Bund.
    • 1938, The Advocate: America’s Jewish Journal, volume 94, page 22, column 1:
      Newsdealer Isador Gennett, the Bronx Jewish war veteran who created an international stir last October by laying a wreath at the German war memorial in Berlin to the accompaniment of Nazi “heils,” came to the defense of a fellow newsdealer, Joseph Ohmann, a German Catholic, by picketing his newsstand to prove he is not, as has been charged, a Nazi.
    • 1940, Elswyth Thane, “Here We Go Again”, in England Was an Island Once, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 227:
      “Meanwhile,” said the Evening News, “the new German-Soviet entente presents a baffling picture. We see Herr Ribbentrop, the arch enemy of Communism and the life and soul of the Anti-Comintern Pact, who once referred to Communism as ‘the most terrible of all diseases,’ presenting himself on the doorstep of a be-swastika’d Moscow while the German Embassy staff greets him with ‘heils’ and Nazi salutes and the Russian-in-the-street looks on in silent but respectful astonishment. […]”
    • 1946, The Polish Review and East European Affairs, volume 6, page 6, column 2:
      […] who simply walked out of the camp dressed as German guards, duplicating Nazi heils, the goosestep and other mannerisms.
    • 1948, Louis P[aul] Lochner, transl., The Goebbels Diaries, New York, N.Y.: Charter, page 15:
      Later I drove to the meeting and talked for two hours. Tremendous applause. Then heils and hand-clapping.
    • 1979, Gene Brown, editor, The New York Times Encyclopedia of Sports: Track and Field, Arno Press, →ISBN, page 76:
      While frantic “heils” burst forth […]
    • 1987, Thomas J. Harris, Courtroom’s Finest Hour in American Cinema, Metuchen, N.J., London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:
      Occasionally, however, the results are somewhat questionable: the four-minute overture-⁠-comprised of slowly rising Nazi "heils"-⁠-which precedes the credits, for example, seems little more than an irritating delay; it is usually deleted when the film is shown on television.
    • 1991, Margot Abbott, The Last Innocent Hour, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 145:
      When they were finished, they raised their arms in the salute Hider stole from Mussolini, and thundered their heils to the heavens.
    • 1993, John Sack, An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, BasicBooks, →ISBN, page 103:
      By now, the SS, Storm Section, Hitler Youth and Nazi suspects were like the crowd at a Hitler rally. Their mouths were a row of red circles, as open as megaphone ends. To look at, the men could be singing, marching, stomping over the flopping remains of Shlomo’s father, mother, brothers, giving their heils, and Shlomo now hated them.
    • 2006, Ronald Weber, “The Dear Paris Herald”, in News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars, Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 71:
      Three days later, in the Mailbag of May 14, Pauline Avery Crawford made her decision: / Sing a song of sick pacts, / A pocket full of lies, / War and twenty blackmails / Baked by the spies; / When the war was opened / The spies began their heils / Until a Yankee Eagle flew / Across three thousand miles.
    • 2013, Carrie Vaughn, “Unternehmen Werwolf”, in Paula Guran, editor, Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre, Prime Books, →ISBN, page 90:
      He wasn’t a boy, a feckless common soldier, he was a wolf. Hitler’s werewolves, the colonel called them, and they saluted with their heils and expected victory.

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch heil, from Old Dutch heil.

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Noun edit

heil n (uncountable)

  1. prosperity
  2. salvation

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Finnish edit

Pronoun edit

heil

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of heillä.
    Heil Hitler, meil Kosola. ― They have Hitler, we have Kosola.

German edit

Alternative forms edit

  • heile (chiefly colloquial; rarely in writing)

Etymology edit

From Middle High German heil, from Old High German heil, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).

In older High German only used of the human body and soul; the modern use also of things is based on Middle Low German hêl, from Old Saxon hēl. The more general sense “whole, entire” did not establish itself in standard German (except in fixed combinations like heilfroh). Cognate with Dutch heel, Low German heel, heil, English whole, hale, Danish hel.

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Adjective edit

heil (strong nominative masculine singular heiler, comparative heiler, superlative am heilsten)

  1. whole; intact; unhurt; safe
    Synonym: unversehrt
    Gut, dass du heil wieder zurück bist. ― I’m glad you’re back safe.
    Die Tasse ist noch heil. ― The cup is still intact.
  2. (in combination with certain nouns) sheltered; innocent; ideal
    heile Kindheit ― innocent childhood
    heile Welt ― ideal world

Declension edit

Positive forms of heil
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist heil sie ist heil es ist heil sie sind heil
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative heiler heile heiles heile
genitive heilen heiler heilen heiler
dative heilem heiler heilem heilen
accusative heilen heile heiles heile
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der heile die heile das heile die heilen
genitive des heilen der heilen des heilen der heilen
dative dem heilen der heilen dem heilen den heilen
accusative den heilen die heile das heile die heilen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein heiler eine heile ein heiles (keine) heilen
genitive eines heilen einer heilen eines heilen (keiner) heilen
dative einem heilen einer heilen einem heilen (keinen) heilen
accusative einen heilen eine heile ein heiles (keine) heilen
Comparative forms of heil
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist heiler sie ist heiler es ist heiler sie sind heiler
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative heilerer heilere heileres heilere
genitive heileren heilerer heileren heilerer
dative heilerem heilerer heilerem heileren
accusative heileren heilere heileres heilere
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der heilere die heilere das heilere die heileren
genitive des heileren der heileren des heileren der heileren
dative dem heileren der heileren dem heileren den heileren
accusative den heileren die heilere das heilere die heileren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein heilerer eine heilere ein heileres (keine) heileren
genitive eines heileren einer heileren eines heileren (keiner) heileren
dative einem heileren einer heileren einem heileren (keinen) heileren
accusative einen heileren eine heilere ein heileres (keine) heileren
Superlative forms of heil
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist am heilsten sie ist am heilsten es ist am heilsten sie sind am heilsten
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative heilster heilste heilstes heilste
genitive heilsten heilster heilsten heilster
dative heilstem heilster heilstem heilsten
accusative heilsten heilste heilstes heilste
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der heilste die heilste das heilste die heilsten
genitive des heilsten der heilsten des heilsten der heilsten
dative dem heilsten der heilsten dem heilsten den heilsten
accusative den heilsten die heilste das heilste die heilsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein heilster eine heilste ein heilstes (keine) heilsten
genitive eines heilsten einer heilsten eines heilsten (keiner) heilsten
dative einem heilsten einer heilsten einem heilsten (keinen) heilsten
accusative einen heilsten eine heilste ein heilstes (keine) heilsten

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Further reading edit

  • “heil” in Duden online
  • “heil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Icelandic edit

Adjective edit

heil (masculine heill, feminine heil, neuter heilt)

  1. (indefinite) feminine singular nominative of heill
  2. (indefinite) neuter plural nominative of heill
  3. (indefinite) neuter plural accusative of heill

Ingrian edit

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Pronoun edit

heil

  1. adessive of höö

References edit

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 98

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). Doublet of hole.

Adjective edit

heil

  1. healthy, sound
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Noun edit

heil (uncountable)

  1. health, welfare
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Interjection edit

heil

  1. hail!
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Descendants edit

  • English: hail
  • Scots: hail

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

heil

  1. Alternative form of hele (“heel”)

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse heill.

Adjective edit

heil (neuter singular heilt, definite singular and plural heile)

  1. alternative form of hel

Derived terms edit

See also terms derived from hel

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”). Akin to English whole.

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Adjective edit

heil (neuter heilt, definite singular and plural heile, comparative heilare, indefinite superlative heilast, definite superlative heilaste)

  1. whole, not in pieces
  2. healthy; uninjured

Declension edit

Declension of heil
comparative heilare
superlative heilast
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative-accusative heil, heiler1 heil heilt
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative-accusative heile heile, heila1 heile
1: Pre-1901 or dialectal.

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Interjection edit

heil

  1. hail

Verb edit

heil

  1. imperative of heile

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Old Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz.

Adjective edit

heil

  1. whole, healthy

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Old High German edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, whence also Old Saxon hēl, Old English hāl, Old Norse heill, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (hails), Vandalic eils. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).

Adjective edit

heil

  1. whole
Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Germanic *hailą, whence also Old English hæl, Old Norse heill.

Noun edit

heil n

  1. luck
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Old Norse edit

Adjective edit

heil

  1. feminine singular indefinite nominative of heill (“whole”)
  2. neuter plural indefinite nominative/accusative of heill (“whole”)

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Pronoun edit

heil

  1. adessive of hö
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