healand

English

Alternative forms

• healend

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.

Anagrams

• Haldane