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S: GOV.UK (last access: 7 December 2025); NCBI (last access: 7 December 2025).
N: 1. – healthy (adj): 1550s, «being in a sound state;» also «conducive to health,» from «health» + «-y» (2). Earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthily; healthiness.
It is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness. [Eliza Leslie, «Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book,» Philadelphia, 1839]
Healthsome is from 1530s in the sense «bestowing health.»
– child (n): Old English cild «fetus, infant, unborn or newly born person,» from Proto-Germanic *kiltham (source also of Gothic kilþei «womb,» inkilþo «pregnant;» Danish kuld «children of the same marriage;» Old Swedish kulder «litter;» Old English cildhama «womb,» lit. «child-home»); it has no certain cognates outside Germanic. «App[arently] originally always used in relation to the mother as the ‘fruit of the womb'» [Buck].
2. A young person, especially between infancy and puberty, who is enjoying good health, and he/she is free from disease.
3. The early years of a child’s life are very important for their health and development. Healthy development means that children of all abilities, including those with special healthcare needs, are able to grow up with their social, emotional, and educational needs being met.
Having a safe and loving home and spending time with family―playing, singing, reading, and talking―are very important. Proper nutrition, exercise, and sleep also can make a big difference.
4. «Healthy child» is a broad, positive term encompassing physical, mental, and social well-being, while «able-bodied child» often implies the absence of physical disability but can be seen as outdated or exclusive; modern best practice favors person-first language like «healthy child» (including those with disabilities) or «non-disabled child,» focusing on supporting all children’s full potential for development and inclusion.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=healthy, https://www.etymonline.com/word/child (last access: 7 December 2025). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/child (last access: 7 December 2025). 3 & 4. CDC (last access: 7 December 2025); UNICEF (last access: 7 December 2025).
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