heill

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”).

• IPA^(key): /heitl/

  Rhymes: -eitl

heill (comparative heilli, superlative heilastur)

1. healthy

   Synonym: heilbrigður

2. complete, entire, whole

   Synonym: allur

   Þetta tók heilt ár!

   This took a whole year!

3. undamaged, in one piece

   Synonym: óskaddaður

heill f (genitive singular heillar, nominative plural heillir) or (in fixed expressions)
heill n pl (plural only, genitive plural heilla)

1. success, luck, happiness

   árna/óska einhverjum heilla ― to wish someone luck

   heillin (mín) (in direct address) ― my dear

   vera til heilla ― to be for the best

   vera heillum horfinn ― to be out of luck

   ... góðu heilli ― luckily

   ... illu heilli ― unfortunately

or (in fixed expressions)

• árna heilla
• illu heilli

• hęill

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).

heill

1. whole
2. healthy, hale

   heill sé þú

   may you be hale

3. (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.

• Icelandic: heill
• Faroese: heilur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heil
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: heil
• Old Swedish: hēl
  • Swedish: hel
• Old Danish: hel, hiæl
  • Danish: hel
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hel
• → Middle English: heil
  • English: hail
  • Scots: hail