hale
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /heɪl/
- Rhymes: -eɪl
- Homophone: hail
Audio (UK) (file)
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)
- (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, […], volume VIII, new edition, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, OCLC 1184656746, 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 22773434:
- "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?"
Usage notes
- Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase hale and hearty.
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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)
- (archaic) Health, welfare.
- a. 1530 (date written; published 1568), John Skelton, “Against Venemous Tongues Enpoysoned with Sclaunder and False Detractions, &c.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, OCLC 1000393158:
- Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle, / And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.
- 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegie vpon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 1125540005, signature F2, recto:
- Eftſoones all heedleſſe of his deareſt hale, / Full greedily into the heard he thruſt: / To ſlaughter them, and vvorke their finall bale, / Leaſt that his toyle ſhould of their troups be bruſt.
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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 *kelh₁- (“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)
- 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 946730821:
- 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 968557217, 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.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], OCLC 36924440, Act 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 1008064829, 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 491297620, 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 17429753, 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, 2007, page 262:
- They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.
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Translations
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Anagrams
- Aleh, Heal, Hela, Leah, heal
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
- (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)
- Alternative spelling of haale
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɦalɛ]
Verb
hale
- masculine singular present transgressive of halit
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haːlə/, [ˈhæːlə]
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Etymology 1
From Old Norse hali.
Noun
hale c (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)
- tail, brush, scut
- bottom, fanny
Inflection
| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hale | halen | haler | halerne |
| genitive | hales | halens | halers | halernes |
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)
- haul, heave, pull
- drag
Further reading
hale on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
hale
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of halen
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
hale
- inflection of haler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- héla
Galician
Verb
hale
- first-person singular present subjunctive of halar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of halar
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/, [ˈhɐle]
Noun
hale
- house, building
- institution
- lodge
- station, hall
Verb
hale
- to have a house
Derived terms
- hoʻohale
References
- “hale” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986
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)
- A corner of an area; a nook or cranny.
- 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)
- 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.
Verb
hale
- Alternative form of haylen (“to hail”)
Noun
hale (plural hales)
- Alternative form of halle (“hall”)
Noun
hale (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)
Noun
hale
- Alternative form of hele (“health”)
Adjective
hale
- Alternative form of hole (“healthy, whole”)
Adjective
hale
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norman
Verb
hale
- first-person singular present indicative of haler
- third-person singular present indicative of haler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of haler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of haler
- 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)
- a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)
Derived terms
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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)
- to haul, heave, pull
- 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)
- a tail (of an animal, aircraft, comet etc.)
Derived terms
- halefinne
- halelaus
- hestehale
- tverrhalehauk
Related terms
- stjert
References
- “hale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxa.lɛ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -alɛ
- Syllabification: ha‧le
Noun
hale f
- nominative plural of hala
- accusative plural of hala
- vocative plural of hala
Spanish
Verb
hale
- inflection of halar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative