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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

Perhaps a back-formation from dryseling, a dissimilated variant of Middle English drysning (“a falling of dew”), from Old English drysnan (“to extinguish”), related to Old English dr?osan (“to fall, to decline”), making it cognate to modern English droze and drowse. Compare also dialectal Swedish drösla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??z.l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l
• Hyphenation: driz?zle

Verb

drizzle (third-person singular simple present drizzles, present participle drizzling, simple past and past participle drizzled)

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, London, Januarye, Aegloga prima,^[1]

     And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,

     As on your boughes the ysicles depend.

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 5,^[2]

     When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;

     But for the sunset of my brother’s son

     It rains downright.

3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.

4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.

5. (slang) To urinate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

Translations

Noun

drizzle (countable and uncountable, plural drizzles)

1. Light rain.
2. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

3. (slang) Water.

4. (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
   • April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian

     Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.

Derived terms

• drizzly
• drizzler

Translations

Anagrams

• rizzled