healand

English

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Etymology

From Middle English healend, from Old English hǣlend (“Jesus”, literally “healer or savior”), equivalent to heal +‎ -and. Cognate with Dutch Heiland (“Saviour, Christ”), German Heiland (“Saviour, Redeemer”).

Noun

healand (plural healands)

  1. (obsolete) One who heals or saves; a saviour.
    • 1867, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Studies in English:
      […] and the Saviour was to them touchingly, as he is to the Germans to this day, the Healand, the " Healing " one.
    • 2011, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice:
      The Old English word for Jesus was healend, one who heals, or the Savior.

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