hail

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heɪl/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: hale

Etymology 1

From Middle English haile, hail, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (compare West Frisian heil, Low German Hagel, Dutch hagel, German Hagel, Danish 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 (kákhlēx, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”).

Noun

hail (uncountable)

  1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
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Verb

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.
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Etymology 2

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 (hǣlan), from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to make healthy, whole, to heal”). Also cognate is whole, from Old English hāl (the spelling with wh- is unetymological, introduced in the 15th century).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) to greet; give salutation to; salute.
  2. (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.
    • Milton
      And such a son as all men hailed me happy.
    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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Adjective

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

  1. (obsolete) Healthy, whole, safe.

Interjection

hail

  1. An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.
    • Shakespeare
      Hail, brave friend.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /halʲ/

Noun

hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail

Scots

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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
Derived terms

Noun

hail (plural hails)

  1. the whole, the whole amount or number

Verb

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

  1. to heal, cure

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hel]

Verb

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

  1. (sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.
Derived terms
  • ower hail (“to overtake”)

Noun

hail (plural hails)

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

Etymology 3

From Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hel]

Noun

hail (uncountable)

  1. (weather) hail, hailstones
  2. small shot, pellets
Derived terms
  • hailie-pickle (“hailstone”)
  • hailstane (“hailstone”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hai̯l/

Adjective

hail

  1. h-prothesized form of ail

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
ail unchanged unchanged hail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂ilus (“healthy, whole”). Akin to English whole.

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /he(ɪ̯)ːl/, /hɛ(ɪ̯)ːl/, /ha(ɪ̯)ːl/
    Rhymes: -éɪ̯ːl

Adjective

hail (neuter haillt)

  1. whole, complete, full, entire
    Dem sat å gamsä heilä ättermedagen
    They sat and chewed the fat the entire afternoon.

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /²he(ɪ̯)ːl/, /²hɛ(ɪ̯)ːl/, /²ha(ɪ̯)ːl/
    Rhymes: -èɪ̯ːl

Verb

hail (preterite haile, passive hailes)

  1. (transitive) to heal
Synonyms
  • häli
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