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hale ahle hlae lhae alhe lahe hael ahel heal ehal aehl eahl hlea lhea hela ehla leha elha aleh laeh aelh ealh leah elah

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Definitions and meaning of hale

hale

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”) (whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.

Adjective

hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

1. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

   Antonym: unhale

Usage notes

• Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase hale and hearty.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).

Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Health, welfare.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέοντες (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.

Verb

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

1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aleh, Heal, Hela, Leah, heal

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خلا (halâ, helâ, “toilet, water closet”), from Arabic خَلَاء (ḵalāʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haˈle/
• Rhymes: -le
• Hyphenation: ha‧lé

Noun

hale f (plural hale, definite haleja, definite plural haletë) (colloquial)

1. toilet, privy

   Synonyms: nevojtore, tualet

Declension

References

• “hale”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “hale”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 152
• Jungg, G. (1895) “hale”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 43
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hale”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 184

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German *halēn. Compare Icelandic hallur (“steep”), from Old Norse hallr (“rock, stone”), from Proto-Germanic *halluz (“rock, stone; rockface, cliff”).

Verb

hale

1. (Uri) to be steep

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

Central Franconian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːlə/

Verb

hale (third-person singular present hält, past tense heelt or hielt, past participle jehale or gehale or gehal)

1. Alternative spelling of haale

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦalɛ]

Verb

hale

1. masculine singular present transgressive of halit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haːlə/, [ˈhæːlə]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale c (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)

1. tail, brush, scut
2. bottom, fanny

Inflection

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse hala, from Middle Low German halen.

Verb

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

1. haul, heave, pull
2. drag

Further reading

• hale on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hale

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of halen

French

Pronunciation

Verb

hale

1. inflection of haler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• héla

Galician

Verb

hale

1. inflection of halar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fale, from Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.le/, [ˈhɐ.le]

Noun

hale

1. house, building
2. institution
3. lodge
4. station, hall

Derived terms

• kaʻa hale (“trailer”)
• halemākaʻi (“police station”)

Verb

hale

1. to have a house

Derived terms

• hoʻohale

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “hale”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English hē̆al-, hā̆l-, oblique stem of healh, from Proto-West Germanic *halh.

Doublet of *halgh (attested only in placenames), whence English haugh.

Alternative forms

• hal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːl(ə)/

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. A corner of an area; a nook or cranny.
2. A hidden or remote place.

Related terms

• halk

Descendants

• English: hale (dialectal)

References

• “hāle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman hale, halle, from Latin halla (“house, dwelling; court; palace; market hall”), from Frankish *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”). Doublet of halle (“hall”).

Alternative forms

• halle

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. hale (temporary structure for housing, entertaining, eating meals, etc.)

Descendants

• English: hale

References

• “hāle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Verb

hale

1. Alternative form of haylen (“to hail”)

Etymology 4

Noun

hale (plural hales)

1. Alternative form of halle (“hall”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 6

Noun

hale

1. Alternative form of hele (“health”)

Etymology 7

Adjective

hale

1. Alternative form of hole (“healthy, whole”)

Etymology 8

Adjective

hale

1. Alternative form of holy (“holy”)

Norman

Verb

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale m (definite singular halen, indefinite plural haler, definite plural halene)

1. a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

• stjert

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse hala, from Middle Low German halen.

Verb

hale (present tense haler, past tense halte, past participle halt)

1. to haul, heave, pull
2. to drag

References

• “hale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hali.

Noun

hale m (definite singular halen, indefinite plural halar, definite plural halane)

1. a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

• stjert

References

• “hale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: ha‧le

Noun

hale f

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

Spanish

Verb

hale

1. inflection of halar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Adjective

hale

1. definite natural masculine singular of hal

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