different between hale vs hile

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: hail

Etymology 1

From Middle English hele, hæle, from Old English h?lu, h?l, from Proto-Germanic *hail?? (“salvation, health”), a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, healthy”). Cognate with Scots haill, hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).

Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Health, welfare.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ?ayle,
     And of their taunting toies re?t with il hayle.

   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney

     all heedless of his dearest hale

Translations

Etymology 2

From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”) (whence whole), from Middle English h?l, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.

Adjective

hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

1. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift

     Last year we thought him strong and hale.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

     "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"

Usage notes

• Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase hale and hearty.

Antonyms

• unhale

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *hal?n? (compare Old English ?eholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cell? (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek ????????? (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.

Verb

hale (third-person singular simple present hales, present participle haling, simple past and past participle haled)

1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:

     They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aleh, Heal, Hela, Leah, heal

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German *hal?n. Compare Icelandic hallur (“steep”), from Old Norse hallr (“rock, stone”), from Proto-Germanic *halluz (“rock, stone; rockface, cliff”).

Verb

hale

1. (Uri) to be steep

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Central Franconian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?l?/

Verb

hale (third-person singular present hält, past tense heelt or hielt, past participle jehale or gehale or gehal)

1. Alternative spelling of haale

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?l?/, [?hæ?l?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale c (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)

1. tail, brush, scut
2. bottom, fanny

Inflection

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse hala, from Middle Low German halen.

Verb

hale (imperative hal, infinitive at hale, present tense haler, past tense halede, perfect tense har halet)

1. haul, heave, pull
2. drag

Further reading

• hale on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hale

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of halen

French

Verb

hale

1. first-person singular present indicative of haler
2. third-person singular present indicative of haler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of haler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of haler
5. second-person singular imperative of haler

Anagrams

• héla

Galician

Verb

hale

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of halar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of halar

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha.le/, [?h?le]

Noun

hale

1. house, building
2. institution
3. lodge
4. station, hall

Verb

hale

1. to have a house

Derived terms

• ho?ohale

References

• “hale” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Middle English

Etymology 1

From a form of Old English halh without the final -h; compare h?le (dative). Doublet of halgh (attested only in placenames), whence English haugh.

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. corner, nook, cranny, hiding place

Alternative forms

• hal

Descendants

• English: hale

References

• “h?le, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman hale, halle, from Latin halla (“house, dwelling; court; palace; market hall”), from Frankish *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hall? (“hall”). Doublet of halle (“hall”).

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. hale (temporary structure for housing, entertaining, eating meals, etc.)

Alternative forms

• halle

Descendants

• English: hale

References

• “h?le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

hale

1. Alternative form of haylen (“to hail”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. Alternative form of halle (“hall”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 6

Adjective

hale

1. Alternative form of hole (“healthy, whole”)

Etymology 7

Adjective

hale

1. Alternative form of holy (“holy”)

Norman

Verb

hale

1. first-person singular present indicative of haler
2. third-person singular present indicative of haler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of haler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of haler
5. second-person singular imperative of haler

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale m (definite singular halen, indefinite plural haler, definite plural halene)

1. a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

• stjert

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse hala, from Middle Low German halen.

Verb

hale (present tense haler, past tense halte, past participle halt)

1. to haul, heave, pull
2. to drag

References

• “hale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale m (definite singular halen, indefinite plural halar, definite plural halane)

1. a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)

Derived terms

• halefinne
• halelaus
• hestehale
• tverrhalehauk

Related terms

• stjert

References

• “hale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.l?/

Noun

hale f

1. nominative plural of hala
2. accusative plural of hala
3. vocative plural of hala

Spanish

Verb

hale

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of halar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of halar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of halar.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

hile (plural hiles)

1. (botany) hilum

Etymology 2

Noun

hile (plural hiles)

1. (old South-West England dialect) A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.

Verb

hile (third-person singular simple present hiles, present participle hiling, simple past and past participle hiled)

1. (old South-West England dialect) To form sheaves into a hile.

References

Anagrams

• Heil, Ihle, Lehi, elhi, heil, heli-

Albanian

Noun

hile f (indefinite plural hile, definite singular hilja, definite plural hilet)

1. trick, cheat

Related terms

• skile

Finnish

Noun

hile

1. small ice crystal (usually in plural), often found floating in air
2. glitter

Declension

Derived terms

• hileinen

Anagrams

• Heli

French

Etymology

Latin hilum

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /il/

Noun

hile m (plural hiles)

1. hilum

Further reading

• “hile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

hile (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of yle

Spanish

Verb

hile

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of hilar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of hilar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of hilar.

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??la, “trickery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çi?le/

Noun

hile (definite accusative hileyi, plural hileler)

1. deceit, ruse, trick
2. adulteration (with the intent of deceiving buyers)

Declension

References

• hile in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu