hale

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See also: Hale, halé, hâlé, hâle, halë, and halę

English[edit]

WOTD – 16 June 2011

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /heɪl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪl
  • Homophone: hail
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

  1. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
    Antonym: unhale
    • 1731 November (date written), Jonathan Swift, “On the Death of Dr. Swift”, in Thomas Sheridan and John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 126:
      His stomach too begins to fail: / Last year we thought him strong and hale; / But now he's quite another thing: / I wish he may hold out till spring!
    • 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
      "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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Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

hale (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Health, welfare.
Translations[edit]
health, welfare — see health,‎ welfare

Etymology 3[edit]

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[edit]

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

  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1636, John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the Second Book of Virgil’s Æneis. Written in the Year 1636.”, in Poems and Translations; with the Sophy, a Tragedy, 5th edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 38:
      A ſpacious Breach we make, and Troy’s proud Wall / Built by the Gods, by our own hands doth fall; / Thus, all their help to their own Ruin give, / Some draw with Cords, and ſome the Monſter drive / With Rolls and Leavers, thus our Works it climbs, / Big with our Fate, the Youth with Songs and Rhimes, / Some dance, ſome hale the Rope; at laſt let down / It enters with a thund’ring Noiſe the Town.
    • 1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 21:
      The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / —As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim— / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood / From these pale feet, which then might trample thee / If they disdained not such a prostrate slave.
    • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 51:
      By night we dragg'd her to the college tower / From her warm bed, and up the corkscrew stair / With hand and rope we haled the groaning sow, / And on the leads we kept her till she pigg'd.
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
      He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. [...] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, [...]
    • 1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:
      The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 262:
      They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

  1. toilet, privy
    Synonyms: nevojtore, tualet

Declension[edit]

Declension of hale
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative hale hale haleja haletë
accusative halenë
dative haleje haleve halesë halevet
ablative halesh

References[edit]

  • “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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

hale

  1. (Uri) to be steep

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Central Franconian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. Alternative spelling of haale

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

  1. masculine singular present transgressive of halit

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hali.

Noun[edit]

hale c (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)

  1. tail, brush, scut
  2. bottom, fanny
Inflection[edit]
Declension of hale
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hale halen haler halerne
genitive hales halens halers halernes

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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

  1. haul, heave, pull
  2. drag

Further reading[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

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

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

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

Anagrams[edit]

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

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

Hawaiian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈha.le/, [ˈhɐ.le]

Noun[edit]

hale

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

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

  1. to have a house

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

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

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale (plural hales)

  1. A corner of an area; a nook or cranny.
  2. A hidden or remote place.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • English: hale (dialectal)

References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale (plural hales)

  1. hale (temporary structure for housing, entertaining, eating meals, etc.)
Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

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

Etymology 4[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale (plural hales)

  1. Alternative form of halle (“hall”)

Etymology 5[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)

Etymology 6[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale

  1. Alternative form of hele (“health”)

Etymology 7[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hale

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

Etymology 8[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hale

  1. Alternative form of holy (“holy”)

Norman[edit]

Verb[edit]

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[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hali.

Noun[edit]

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

  1. a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)
Derived terms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]

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

Verb[edit]

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

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hali.

Noun[edit]

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

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

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

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Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hale f

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

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

hale

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

Swedish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

hale

  1. definite natural masculine singular of hal
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