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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?l/, [he???]
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: hale

Etymology 1

From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, from Old English hæ?l, hæ?el, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (compare West Frisian heil, Low German Hagel, Dutch hagel, German Hagel, Danish hagl). Either from Proto-Indo-European *kag?los (“pebble”), or from *?o?ló-, a reduplication of *?el- (“cold”) (compare Old Norse héla (“frost”)).

Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Welsh caill (“testicle”), Breton kell (“testicle”), Lithuanian šeš?lis (“shade, shadow”), Ancient Greek ?????? (kákhl?x, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit ????? (?í?ira, “cool, cold”).

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

Derived terms

• hailstone
• hail storm / hailstorm
• hail shaft / hailshaft

Translations

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.

   They say it's going to hail tomorrow.

2. (intransitive) To send or release hail.

   The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.

3. To pour down in rapid succession.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole and hale.

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

Verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

1. (transitive) to greet; give salutation to; salute.
2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.

3. (transitive) to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of

4. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.

Derived terms

• hailer
• hail from

Translations

Interjection

hail

1. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

Derived terms

• all hail
• Hail Mary

Translations

Anagrams

• Hlai, hila

Estonian

Noun

hail

1. adessive singular of hai

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hal?/

Noun

hail

1. h-prothesized form of ail

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

hail

1. Alternative form of heil (“healthy, sound”)

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of heil (“health, welfare”)

Scots

Etymology 1

From Old English h?l (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?ilus (“healthy, whole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [hj?l]

Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

1. whole
2. free or recovered from disease, healthy, wholesome
3. (of people, parts of the body, etc.) free from injury, safe, sound, unhurt
4. (of material objects and of time, numbers etc.) whole, entire, complete, sound, unbroken, undamaged

Derived terms

Noun

hail (plural hails)

1. the whole, the whole amount or number

Verb

hail (third-person singular present hails, present participle hailin, past hailt, past participle hailt)

1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]

Verb

hail (third-person singular present hails, present participle hailin, past hailt, past participle hailt)

1. (sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.

Derived terms

• ower hail (“to overtake”)

Noun

hail (plural hails)

1. (sports) goal, the shout when a goal is scored, the goal area

Etymology 3

From Old English hæ?l, hæ?el, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kag?los (“pebble”), or from *?o?ló-, a reduplication of *?el- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hel]

Noun

hail (uncountable)

1. (weather) hail, hailstones
2. small shot, pellets

Derived terms

• hailie-pickle (“hailstone”)
• hailstane (“hailstone”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hai?l/

Adjective

hail

1. h-prothesized form of ail (“second”)

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?ilus (“healthy, whole”). Akin to English whole.

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /he(??)?l/, /h?(??)?l/, /ha(??)?l/

  Rhymes: -é???l

Adjective

hail (neuter haillt)

1. whole, complete, full, entire

   Dem sat å gamsä heilä ättermedagen

   They sat and chewed the fat the entire afternoon.

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /²he(??)?l/, /²h?(??)?l/, /²ha(??)?l/

  Rhymes: -è???l

Verb

hail (preterite haile, middle hailes, passive val haile)

1. (transitive) To heal.

Synonyms

• häli

English

Etymology

From Middle English crien, from Old French crier (“to announce publicly, proclaim, scream, shout”) (whence Medieval Latin cr?d? (“to cry out, shout, publish, proclaim”)), from Frankish *kr?tan (“to cry, cry out, publish”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?tan? (“to cry out, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *greyd- (“to shout”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian kriete (“to cry”), Dutch krijten (“to cry”) and krijsen (“to shriek”), German Low German krieten (“to cry, call out, shriek”), German kreißen (“to cry loudly, wail, groan”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (kreitan, “to cry, scream, call out”), Latin gingr?tus (“the cackling of geese”), Middle Irish grith (“a cry”), Welsh gryd (“a scream”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a??/
• Homophone: krai
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

cry (third-person singular simple present cries, present participle crying, simple past and past participle cried)

1. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
2. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
4. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
5. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

6. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, etc.
   • 1652, Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus

     Love is lost, and thus she cries him.

7. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
   • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi

     I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• bawl
• blubber
• sob
• wail
• weep
• whimper
• See also Thesaurus:weep
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Antonyms

• laugh

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

cry (plural cries)

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.

2. A shout or scream.

   I heard a cry from afar.

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   a battle cry

4. A clamour or outcry.
5. (collectively) A group of hounds.
   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659.

6. (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
7. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.

   "Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.
8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

Derived terms

• battle cry
• hue and cry
• war cry

Translations

See also

• breastfeeding
• crocodile tears

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “cry”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• cry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cyr, Cyr., RYC

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cri.

Noun

cry m (plural crys)

1. cry; shout

Descendants

• French: cri

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French crier.

Verb

cry (third-person singular present cries, present participle cryin, past cried, past participle cried)

1. to call, to give a name to
   • A body whit studies the history is cried a historian an aw.