hail from

English

Etymology

Ships would declare, by hailing, the port from which they sailed or in which they were registered.

Verb

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

1. To be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence.
   • 1998, August 23; the episode Lard of the Dance (wikiquote) from the tenth season

     [Willie] Saints be praised. I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?

     [Homer] Uh, North... Kilt-town.

   My niece speaks French but she hails from Hampshire.

Translations

to be a native of

• Dutch: afkomstig zijn van, afstammen van
• Finnish: olla kotoisin
• Greek: κατάγομαι (el) (katágomai)
• Icelandic: vera frá, koma frá
• Italian: venire (it), essere originario (followed by di)
• Macedonian: поте́кнува (potéknuva)
• Portuguese: vir de
• Russian: происходи́ть (ru) impf (proisxodítʹ), произойти́ (ru) pf (proizojtí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потицати

  Roman: poticati (sh)

• Spanish: ser oriundo de, proceder de
• Swedish: bördig (sv)
• Turkish: dolu (tr)