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Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse heill (compare Faroese heilur, Norwegian Nynorsk heil Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, and Swedish hel), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (compare English whole, hale, Dutch heel, German heil), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
heill (comparative heilli, superlative heilastur)
- healthy
- complete, entire, whole
Þetta tók heilt ár!- This took a whole year!
- undamaged, in one piece
Inflection
positive (strong declension)
positive (weak declension)
superlative (strong declension)
superlative (weak declension)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Noun
heill f (genitive singular heillar, nominative plural heillir)
- success, luck, happiness
Derived terms
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).
Adjective
heill
- whole
- healthy, hale
heill sé þú- may you be hale
- (before a noun, agreeing with it) hail (interjection)
- 900s–1000s, Anonymous, Sigrdrífumál (‘the speeches of Sigrdrífa’), stanza 3
Heill dagr! / Heilir dags synir!
Heill nótt ok nipt!
óreiðum augum / litið okkr þinig
ok gefið sitjǫndum sigr!- Hail the day! Hail the sons of day! Hail night and her kinswoman! With friendly eyes look ye hither upon us two, and give the sitting ones victory.
Declension
Strong declension of heill
Declension of comparative of heill
Strong declension of superlative of heill
Weak declension of superlative of heill
Descendants