hale

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective 1.3.1.1 Antonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.5 References 1.6 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Inflection 2.4 Verb 3 French 3.1 Verb 3.2 Anagrams 4 Galician 4.1 Verb 5 Hawaiian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 6 Spanish 6.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /heɪl/

  Rhymes: -eɪl

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hails (“‘whole, healthy’”).

[edit] Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. Health, welfare.

[edit] Etymology 2

Representing a Northern dialectal form of Old English hāl (“‘whole’”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse heill (Webster's suggests ‘partly from OE, partly from ON’). Compare whole, hail (adjective).

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hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

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• unhale

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[edit] Etymology 3

From Old Frankonian haler (="to pull, haul"), from Frankonian *halon or Old Dutch halen, both from Proto Germanic ^[1]. Compare haul.

[edit] Verb

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

1. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

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[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aehl
• heal
• Leah

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse hali.

[edit] Noun

hale c. (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)

1. tail

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[edit] Verb

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

1. to pull

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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.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aehl
• héla

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Verb

hale

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

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[edit] Hawaiian

[edit] Etymology

Originally vale

[edit] Noun

hale

1. house

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

hale (infinitive: halar)

1. Third-person singular imperative of halar.