An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Heiland

by Friedrich Kluge

Heiland, from the equivalent Middle High German and Old High German heilant, masculine, ‘Saviour’; properly a participle of heilen (a being retained in the participle derivative as in Weigand); the term is High German and Low German; compare Old Saxon hêliand, Anglo-Saxon hœ̂lend. In England, where it became obsolete as early as the 13th century, the word, even in the older period, was never so deeply rooted as in Germany. In Gothic nasjands, Anglo-Saxon nergend.