hall
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /hɔːl/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑl/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːl
- Homophone: haul
NounEdit
hall (plural halls)
- A corridor; a hallway.
- The drinking fountain was out in the hall.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
- A meeting room.
- The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
- A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
- The duke lived in a great hall overlooking the sea.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
- A building providing student accommodation at a university.
- The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
- The principal room of a secular medieval building.
- (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd, as for dancing.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub
- Then cry, a hall, a hall! Come, father Rosin, with your fiddle now.
- (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub
- A place for special professional education, or for conferring professional degrees or licences.
- a Divinity Hall; Apothecaries' Hall
- (India) A living room.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
corridor or a hallway
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meeting room
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manor house
building providing student accommodation
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principal room of a secular medieval building
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AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (compare English shallow, Middle High German hel (“tired, weak”), Ancient Greek σκέλλω (skéllō, “to dry up”), σκληρός (sklērós, “hard, harsh”)).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “hall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 141
ChineseEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)
- hall (a corridor or a hallway)
InflectionEdit
Declension of hall
EstonianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hall (type õrn)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hall | hallad |
| genitive | halla | hallade |
| partitive | halla | hallu / hallasid |
| illative | halla / hallasse | halladesse |
| inessive | hallas | hallades |
| elative | hallast | halladest |
| allative | hallale | halladele |
| adessive | hallal | halladel |
| ablative | hallalt | halladelt |
| translative | hallaks | halladeks |
| terminative | hallani | halladeni |
| essive | hallana | halladena |
| abessive | hallata | halladeta |
| comitative | hallaga | halladega |
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”)
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)
- grey (color)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hall (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hall | hallid |
| genitive | halli | hallide |
| partitive | halli | halle / hallisid |
| illative | halli / hallisse | hallidesse |
| inessive | hallis | hallides |
| elative | hallist | hallidest |
| allative | hallile | hallidele |
| adessive | hallil | hallidel |
| ablative | hallilt | hallidelt |
| translative | halliks | hallideks |
| terminative | hallini | hallideni |
| essive | hallina | hallidena |
| abessive | hallita | hallideta |
| comitative | halliga | hallidega |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)
- hall (large room or building)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hall (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hall | hallid |
| genitive | halli | hallide |
| partitive | halli | halle / hallisid |
| illative | halli / hallisse | hallidesse |
| inessive | hallis | hallides |
| elative | hallist | hallidest |
| allative | hallile | hallidele |
| adessive | hallil | hallidel |
| ablative | hallilt | hallidelt |
| translative | halliks | hallideks |
| terminative | hallini | hallideni |
| essive | hallina | hallidena |
| abessive | hallita | hallideta |
| comitative | halliga | hallidega |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ol/
NounEdit
hall m (plural halls)
Further readingEdit
- “hall” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hall
- Imperative singular of hallen.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of hallen.
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From the coincidence[1] of the Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi хӯнтли (hūntli), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi хӯлуӈкве (hūluňkve) and Finnish kuulla).
VerbEdit
hall
- (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
- (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
- Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of hall
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from German Halle.[2]
NounEdit
hall (plural hallok)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | hall | hallok |
| accusative | hallt | hallokat |
| dative | hallnak | halloknak |
| instrumental | hallal | hallokkal |
| causal-final | hallért | hallokért |
| translative | hallá | hallokká |
| terminative | hallig | hallokig |
| essive-formal | hallként | hallokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | hallban | hallokban |
| superessive | hallon | hallokon |
| adessive | hallnál | halloknál |
| illative | hallba | hallokba |
| sublative | hallra | hallokra |
| allative | hallhoz | hallokhoz |
| elative | hallból | hallokból |
| delative | hallról | hallokról |
| ablative | halltól | halloktól |
| Possessive forms of hall | ||
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| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | hallom | halljaim |
| 2nd person sing. | hallod | halljaid |
| 3rd person sing. | hallja | halljai |
| 1st person plural | hallunk | halljaink |
| 2nd person plural | hallotok | halljaitok |
| 3rd person plural | halljuk | halljaik |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Entry #386 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
LudianEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
- a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.
NounEdit
hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
or
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)
- a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)
- a slope, sloping terrain
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall m (plural halls)
- (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)
Derived termsEdit
SpanishEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hall c
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of hall | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | hall | hallen | hallar | hallarna |
| Genitive | halls | hallens | hallars | hallarnas |