English
healless
Healless comes from Middle English heleles.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500heleles
- Englishearliest quotation 1842healless
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500heleles
- Englishearliest quotation 1842healless
Earliest quotation: 1842, John Snowden Hopkins: “[…] the hour that Wrung its idol from its…”
Formed from heal ‘health, well-being’ + -less
Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos ‘healthy, whole’
Proto-Germanic *hailijaną ‘to heal, make whole, save’
Proto-West Germanic *hailijan ‘to heal, cure’
Old English hǣlan ‘to heal, cure, save, greet, salute’
Middle English helen ‘to cure, heal’
English heal
Every English word from Middle English heleles
Today it means
adj Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English heleles / healless