health
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos
Proto-Germanic *hailaz
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Proto-Germanic *-iþō
Proto-Germanic *hailiþō
Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu
Old English hǣlþ
Middle English helthe
English health
Inherited from Middle English helthe, from Old English hǣlþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailiþō, from *hailaz + *-iþō. Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole, hale, or heal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). More at heal. Doublet of wholth.
Base: whole
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: healths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: helth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: helthe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: healthe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.
My grampa still enjoys very good health.
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
gloss: A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project.
gloss: Physical condition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Cure, remedy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: A toast to prosperity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Strikingly, however, Waller does not deny but rather revels in the claim that healths lead to excessive drinking
gloss: The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The enemies on this level have a lot of health.
Lose a little health and there's a few seconds in which you'll be able to win it back by ragging on an enemy.
Enemies can knock your health down to zero if you're not careful and item upgrades are slow to come by.
Related words: heal
Derived words: allied health
bill of health
cyberhealth
digital health
eHealth
e-health
health activation
health and fitness age
health and safety
healthbar
health bar
health behavior
health behaviour
healthcare
health-care
health care
health center
health centre
health club
health code
health-conscious
health education
healthen
health farm
health faucet
health food
healthful
health fund
health hazard
healthie
healthification
healthify
healthiness
health informatics
health insurance
healthism
healthist
health is wealth
health is your first wealth
healthless
healthlike
health physicist
health physics
health point
health product
health resort
healthscape
health science
health service
health shake
healthsome
health spa
healthspan
health stamp
health system
health tourism
health visitor
healthward
health warning
healthwise
health worker
healthy
ill-health
ill health
in health
in sickness and in health
in the pink of health
life, prosperity, health
mental health
occy health
Personal Social Health Education
pink of health
prehealth
public health
reproductive health
subhealth
telebehavioral health
telehealth
telemental health
to your health
unhealth
Vale of Health
World Health Organization
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