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Definition hale
Etymology 1
From Middle English hele, hæle, from Old English h?lu, h?l, from Proto-Germanic *hail?? (“salvation, health”), a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, healthy”). Cognate with Scots haill, hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).
Noun
hale (uncountable)
- (archaic) Health, welfare.
Etymology 2
Representing a Northern dialectal form of Old English h?l (“whole”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse heill (Webster's suggests ‘partly from Old English, partly from Old Norse’), both from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?ilus (“healthy, whole”). Cognate with Dutch heel (“complete, full, whole”), Danish hel (“full, whole, entire”), German heil (“whole, intact, unhurt, safe”), Icelandic heill (“complete, entire, whole”), Norwegian hel (“whole, unbroken”), Swedish hel (“whole, complete, not broken; in order”). Compare whole, hail (adjective).
Adjective
hale (comparative haler, superlative halest)
Etymology 3
From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *hal?n? (compare Old English ?eholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cell? (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek ????????? (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)
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