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Vinony

health

noun

  1. level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: 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”).

  1. A warrior; hero; man.

    “They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.”