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Heil

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname from German.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from German.

Etymology

As a German surname, shortened from Heinrich. As a German and Dutch surname, from the name Heila, from hail (“whole”).

Forms

plural
Heils
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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