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hail
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)
- 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)
- (impersonal) Of hail, to fall from the sky.
- They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
- (intransitive) To send or release hail.
- The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
- 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)
- (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.
Verb
hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)
- (transitive) to greet; give salutation to; salute.
- (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
- (transitive) to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
- (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
Derived terms
- hailer
- hail from
Translations
Interjection
hail
- 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
- adessive singular of hai
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hal?/
Noun
hail
- h-prothesized form of ail
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hail (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
hail
- Alternative form of heil (“healthy, sound”)
Noun
hail (uncountable)
- 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)
- whole
- free or recovered from disease, healthy, wholesome
- (of people, parts of the body, etc.) free from injury, safe, sound, unhurt
- (of material objects and of time, numbers etc.) whole, entire, complete, sound, unbroken, undamaged
Derived terms
Noun
hail (plural hails)
- the whole, the whole amount or number
Verb
hail (third-person singular present hails, present participle hailin, past hailt, past participle hailt)
- 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)
- (sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.
Derived terms
- ower hail (“to overtake”)
Noun
hail (plural hails)
- (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)
- (weather) hail, hailstones
- small shot, pellets
Derived terms
- hailie-pickle (“hailstone”)
- hailstane (“hailstone”)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hai?l/
Adjective
hail
- 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)
- whole, complete, full, entire
- Dem sat å gamsä heilä ättermedagen
- They sat and chewed the fat the entire afternoon.
- Dem sat å gamsä heilä ättermedagen
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /²he(??)?l/, /²h?(??)?l/, /²ha(??)?l/
- Rhymes: -è???l
Verb
hail (preterite haile, middle hailes, passive val haile)
- (transitive) To heal.
Synonyms
- häli
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gale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
- Homophone: Gail
Etymology 1
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.
Verb
gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past galed or gole, past participle galed or galen)
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant.
- c. 1346, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love
- Can he cry and gale.
- c. 1346, Geoffrey Chaucer, Court of Love
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
- (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
- (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.
Etymology 2
From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
Noun
gale (plural gales)
- (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
- With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a few months. But on arrival there, friends told my brother that the Indian Ocean was rough in June and July, and as this was my first voyage, I should not be allowed to sail until November. Someone also reported that a steamer had just been sunk in a gale. This made my brother uneasy, and he refused to take the risk of allowing me to sail immediately.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xii:
- An outburst, especially of laughter.
- 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]
- The slightest hint of smugness would have had the nation leaning over our shoulders to blow out the birthday candles with a gale of reproach and disapproval.
- 1972, International Association of Seed Crushers, Congress [proceedings]
- (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
- (obsolete) A song or story.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Toone to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- (meteorology): breeze, hurricane, storm
Derived terms
- gale force
Translations
See also
- Beaufort scale
Verb
gale (third-person singular simple present gales, present participle galing, simple past and past participle galed)
- (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
Etymology 3
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, ga?el, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild mytle”), German Gagel (“mytle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
Noun
gale
- A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
Noun
gale (plural gales)
- (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
References
- gale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Gael, Lega, egal, geal, lage, leag
Awtuw
Noun
gale
- fish
References
- Harry Feldman. A Grammar of Awtuw. (Pacific Linguistics: Series B, 94.) (1986)
Basque
Noun
gale
- eagerness
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?l?/, [???æ?l?]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse to sing, crow, chant, from Proto-Germanic *galan?, cognate with Norwegian gale, Swedish gala, English gale.
Verb
gale (past tense galede, or (archaic) gol, past participle galet)
- to crow (mostly of the sound of the cock)
- to scream
Inflection
References
- “gale” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
gale
- definite singular of gal
- plural of gal
French
Etymology
Variant of galle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al/
Noun
gale f (plural gales)
- scabies; mange
Further reading
- “gale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- égal, Gaël, gela
Italian
Noun
gale f
- plural of gala
Anagrams
- gela, lega
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse gala
Verb
gale (imperative gal, present tense galer, simple past gol or galte, past participle galt)
- to make a sound characteristic of a rooster; to crow
Etymology 2
Adjective
gale
- definite singular of gal
- plural of gal
References
- “gale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
gale (present tense gjel, past tense gol, supine gale, past participle galen, present participle galande, imperative gal)
- Alternative form of gala
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- galent
Adjective
gale
- neuter singular of galen
Anagrams
- alge, egal, egla, lage, lega
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a.l?/
- Homophone: gal?
Noun
gale
- dative/locative singular of ga?a
Noun
gale
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gala
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