Etymology

healsome

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Today it means: Wholesome; healthful. Full definition →

Scots hailsome
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The story

  1. Scots · borrowed fromhailsome
  2. English todayhealsome

Anglicised variant of Scots hailsome, equivalent to heal + -some.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.