See also: hæil

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (compare West Frisian heil, Low German Hagel, Dutch hagel, German Hagel, Danish hagl, Norwegian hagl)). Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (pebble), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (cold) (compare Old Norse héla (frost)).

Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Welsh caill (testicle), Breton kell (testicle), Lithuanian šešėlis (shade, shadow), Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, pebble), Albanian çakëll (pebble), Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, cool, cold).

NounEdit

 

hail (countable and uncountable, plural hails)

  1. (meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
  2. (meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
  3. (countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
    • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022, 40:01 from the start:
      Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.
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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.
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Etymology 2Edit

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, hale, and heil.

AdjectiveEdit

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

  1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC, lines 249–252:
      [] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: []
  2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
    He was hailed as a hero.
  3. (transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
    Hail a taxi.
    1. (transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
      In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop.
  4. (transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.
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InterjectionEdit

hail

  1. (archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
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hail

  1. adessive singular of hai

IrishEdit

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hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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hail (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hayle (hail)

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AdjectiveEdit

hail

  1. Alternative form of heil (healthy, sound)

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hail (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of heil (health, welfare)

ScotsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English hāl (healthy, safe), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (whole, safe, sound), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂ilus (healthy, whole).

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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
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hail (plural hails)

  1. the whole, the whole amount or number

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

  1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2Edit

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

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

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

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

Etymology 3Edit

From Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (pebble), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (cold).

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hail (uncountable)

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

From Ottoman Turkish حائل(hail), from Arabic حَائِل(ḥāʔil). An Ottoman Turkish homophone from Arabic هَائِل(hāʔil) did not survive to modern Turkish.

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hail (definite accusative haili, plural hailler) (obsolete)

  1. obstacle
    Synonym: engel

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WelshEdit

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hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail (second)

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ail unchanged unchanged hail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.