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vesels

Pronunciation: [væsæls]

“vesels” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. healthy (not sick, not wounded; being in good health)
  2. healthy, sound (satisfying certain norms and expectations)
  3. used to wish well to someone, to wish success to some action, activity
  4. whole (not divided into parts, pieces; which is not broken)
  5. whole
  6. whole, entire (encompassing the full extension, volume, size of something)
  7. whole, entire

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wéselas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“good, excellent, happy”) with an extra -el. The original meaning was thus “cheerful, happy,” by extension “one who has nothing to suffer from, who is not sick” and then “healthy,” from which also “not damaged,” “whole, not divided.” Cognates include dialectal Lithuanian vẽselas, vesẽlas (“joyous, happy”), Old Prussian wessals…

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