hale

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See also Hale, halé, halę, and hâlé

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hailaz (whole, healthy).

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hale (uncountable)

  1. Health, welfare.
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[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. (archaic) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
    • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
      "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
      "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
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From Old French haler (to pull, haul), from Frankish *hālon, from Proto-Germanic. Compare haul.

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

  1. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.6:
      For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 262:
      They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
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  • IPA: /haːlə/, [ˈhæːlə]
  • (file)

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse hali.

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

  1. tail, brush, scut
  2. bottom, fanny
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From late Old Norse hala, from Middle Low German halen.

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

  1. haul, heave, pull
  2. drag

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hale

  1. singular present subjunctive of halen.

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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

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hale

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

[edit] Hawaiian

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From Proto-Oceanic, compare Indonesian balai. Cognate with Fijian vale, Māori whare.

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hale

  1. house

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hale f.

  1. nominative plural of hala
  2. accusative plural of hala
  3. vocative plural of hala

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hale (infinitive halar)

  1. third-person singular imperative of halar
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