heil

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/haɪl/

Definition of heil

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To greet with a Sieg Heil.
    “John Smith: Our deal stands. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: North America is yours. / John Smith: And the rest of the Reich is yours. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: You have complete autonomy. / John Smith: Heil Goertzmann! (performs Nazi salute) / Wilhelm Goertzmann: Heil Smith! (performs Nazi salute)”
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verb

  1. To greet with a Sieg Heil.
    “John Smith: Our deal stands. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: North America is yours. / John Smith: And the rest of the Reich is yours. / Wilhelm Goertzmann: You have complete autonomy. / John Smith: Heil Goertzmann! (performs Nazi salute) / Wilhelm Goertzmann: Heil Smith! (performs Nazi salute)”

noun

  1. A Sieg Heil.
    “Nazi “heils,” Nazi songs and Nazi swastikas are distasteful to most democracy-loving citizens.”
    “Health, Hitler, heils, and hatred are the “four H’s” used by United States Nazis to prevent Americanization of children whose parents are members of the German-American Bund.”
    “Newsdealer Isador Gennett, the Bronx Jewish war veteran who created an international stir last October by laying a wreath at the German war memorial in Berlin to the accompaniment of Nazi “heils,” came to the defense of a fellow newsdealer, Joseph Ohmann, a German Catholic, by picketing his newsstand to prove he is not, as has been charged, a Nazi.”
    “[…] who simply walked out of the camp dressed as German guards, duplicating Nazi heils, the goosestep and other mannerisms.”

name

  1. A surname from German.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos Proto-Germanic *hailaz Proto-West Germanic *hail Old High German heil Middle High German heil German Heilbor. English heil Borrowed from German Heil, from Middle High German heil, from Old High German heil, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos. Doublet of whole, hail, and hale.

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