hail

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Etymology 1 [edit]

Middle English, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (compare Old High German hagal, Old Norse 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 (káchlēx, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”).

Noun [edit]

hail (uncountable)

  1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
balls of ice

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (impersonal) Said of the weather when hail is falling.
    They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
  2. (transitive) to send or release hail
    The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
Translations [edit]
said when hail is falling

Etymology 2 [edit]

The adjective hail is a variant of hale (“health, safety”) (from the early 13th century). The transitive verb with the meaning "to salute" is also from the 13th century. The cognate verb heal is already Old English (hælan), from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to make healthy, whole, to heal”). Also cognate is whole, from Old English hál (the spelling with wh- is unetymological, introduced in the 15th century).

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (transitive) to greet
    Hail Linzen
  2. (transitive) to praise enthusiastically
    He was hailed as a hero.
  3. (transitive) to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of
    Hail a taxi
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Translations [edit]
to greet
to praise enthusiastically
to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of

Adjective [edit]

hail (comparative more hail, superlative most hail)

  1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

Scots [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: [hel]
  • (South Scots) IPA: [hjɛl]

Adjective [edit]

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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Derived terms

Noun [edit]

hail (plural hails)

  1. the whole, the whole amount or number

Verb [edit]

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

  1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2 [edit]

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Verb [edit]

tae 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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Noun [edit]

hail (plural hails)

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

Etymology 3 [edit]

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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Noun [edit]

hail (uncountable)

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