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Heil

//haɪl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A Sieg Heil.

    "Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens."

Verb
  1. 1
    To greet with a Sieg Heil.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

As a German surname, shortened from Heinrich. As a German and Dutch surname, from the name Heila, from hail (“whole”).

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