hall

See also: háll, håll, Hall, häll, and Häll

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hall (plural halls)

  1. 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.
  2. A meeting room.
    The hotel had three halls for conferences, and two were in use by the convention.
  3. 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.
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  4. A building providing student accommodation at a university.
    The student government hosted several social events so that students from different halls would intermingle.
  5. The principal room of a secular medieval building.
  6. (obsolete) Cleared passageway through a crowd.

Derived terms

Translations

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Albanian

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /haɫ/

Noun

hall m (indefinite plural halle, definite singular halli, definite plural hallet)

  1. trouble

References

  1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “hall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 141

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall. Doublet of hal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [hɒːl]

Noun

hall c (singular definite hallen, plural indefinite haller)

  1. hall (a corridor or a hallway)

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *halla, from pre-Finnic *šalna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]. Compare Latvian salna, Lithuanian šalna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlː/

Noun

hall (genitive halla, partitive halla)

  1. frost
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *halli (compare Finnish halli), from Balto-Slavic. Compare Latvian salnis, Lithuanian šalnis (“off-white, roan”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

Adjective

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

  1. grey (color)
Declension
Derived terms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑlʲː/

Noun

hall (genitive halli, partitive halli)

  1. hall (large room or building)
Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ol/

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hal/
  • Rhymes: -al

Verb

hall

  1. Imperative singular of hallen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of hallen.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒlː]
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1

From the coincidence[1] of the Proto-Uralic *kontale- (compare Old Hungarian hadl (“hear”), Mansi хӯнтли (χūntli, χūntl-), Finnish kuunnella) and Proto-Uralic *kule- (compare Mansi хӯлуӈкве (χūluŋkwe) and Finnish kuulla).

Verb

hall

  1. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive sounds through the ear)
  2. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
    Hallottam egy hangot a szobából. ― I heard a sound from the room.
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Halle.[2]

Noun

hall (plural hallok)

  1. lounge
Declension
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
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

References

  1. ↑ Entry #386 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, →ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish halla.

Noun

hall

  1. frost

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫll.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

  1. a hall (a building or very large room)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑlː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hǫll. Akin to English hall.

Noun

hall m (definite singular hallen, indefinite plural hallar, definite plural hallane)
or
hall f (definite singular halla, indefinite plural haller, definite plural hallene)

  1. a hall (a building or very large room)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hallr.

Noun

hall n (definite singular hallet, indefinite plural hall, definite plural halla)

  1. a slope, sloping terrain

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hall.

Pronunciation

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

  1. (architecture) lobby; entrance hall (room in a building used for entry from the outside)

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

hall m (plural halls)

  1. hall, lobby, lounge

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-. Compare English hall. Related to Latin cella and English cellar.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hal/
  • audio(file)

Noun

hall c

  1. a lounge
  2. a corridor
  3. an entryway
  4. short for any of the words:
    • simhall
    • ishall
    • sporthall
    • verkstadshall
    • mässhall

Declension

Declension of hall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hall hallen hallar hallarna
Genitive halls hallens hallars hallarnas

References

  1. ↑ hall in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hallr. Cognate with Icelandic hallur.

Adjective

hall

  1. sloping, inclined, oblique

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hǫll, from Proto-Germanic *hallō

Noun

hall f

  1. area where no particularly large forest exist
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