different between parenting vs health

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????nt??/

Noun

parenting (countable and uncountable, plural parentings)

1. The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.

Derived terms

• buddy parenting

Translations

Verb

parenting

1. present participle of parent

Anagrams

• trepaning

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English parenting.

Noun

parenting m (plural parentings)

1. parenting

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English helþe, from Old English h?lþ, from Proto-West Germanic *hailiþu, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, hale”). Cognate with Old High German heilida. Analyzable as whole +? -th, hale +? -th, or heal +? -th. More at heal.

Alternative forms

• helth, helthe, healthe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?lth, IPA^(key): /h?l?/, [h?l??]
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

health (usually uncountable, plural healths)

1. The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]
2. A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.

3. Physical condition.
4. in shape, in forme.
5. (obsolete) Cure, remedy. [16th c. (Middle English: 11th-15th c.)]
6. (countable) A toast to prosperity. [from 17th c.]
7. (video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.

Derived terms

Related terms

• heal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heleð (“man, hero, fighter”), from Old English hæleþ (“man, hero, fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *haliþ, from Proto-Germanic *haliþaz (“man, hero”). Cognate with West Frisian held (“hero”), Dutch held (“hero”), German Held (“hero”), Danish helt (“hero”), Swedish hjälte (“hero”), Norwegian hold (“hero”).

Alternative forms

• heleth

Noun

health (plural healths)

1. (obsolete) A warrior; hero; man.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion

     They, under false pretence of amity and cheer, the British peers invite, the German healths to view.

References

• health in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• health in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.