hale

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 2 Danish 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.3 Verb 3 French 3.1 Verb 4 Hawaiian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Spanish 5.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

IPA: /heɪl/

• Rhymes: -eɪl

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse heill ‘health, prosperity’.

[edit] Noun

hale (uncountable)

1. Health, welfare.

[edit] Etymology 2

Representing a Northern dialectal form of Old English hāl ‘whole’. Compare whole, hail (adjective).

[edit] Adjective

hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)

1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old French haler < Old Norse hala < Germanic. Compare haul.

[edit] Verb

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

1. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Noun

hale

1. tail

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hale

1. to pull

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[edit] French

[edit] 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.

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[edit] Hawaiian

[edit] Etymology

Originally vale

[edit] Noun

hale

1. house

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

hale

1. Third-person singular imperative of halar.