different between hail vs yell

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?ellen, yellen, from Old English ?iellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellan?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

1. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) to convey by shouting

   He yelled directions to the party from the car.

3. (slang) to tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

   If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

Usage notes

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

Synonyms

• (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Derived terms

Related terms

• gale
• yelp

Translations

Noun

yell (plural yells)

1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
   • 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)

     After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

Adjective

yell (not comparable)

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

Anagrams

• Lyle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?l/
• Hyphenation: yell
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

yell m (plural yells)

1. yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)

Related terms

• gil
• gillen
• yellen

Middle English

Noun

yell

1. Alternative form of ?elle