hail

(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.

(meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.

Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.

2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 40:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03:

(countable, by extension) A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.

en-noun

hail (countable and uncountable, plural hails)

From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or, from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Dutch hagel (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Danish hagl (“hail”), Swedish hagel (“hail”), Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”). Doublet of haglaz.
Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Welsh caill (“testicle”), Breton kell (“testicle”), Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), Albanian çakëll (“pebble”), Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”).


hail

They say it's going to hail tomorrow.

(impersonal) To have hailstones fall from the sky.

The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.

en-verb

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailing, simple past and past participle hailed)

hails (present singular third-person)
hailing (participle present)
hailed (participle past)
hailed (past)

esik (with jég or jégeső as the subject)

From Middle English haylen, haulien, hawelien, from Old English hagolian, hagalian (“to hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglōn, from Proto-Germanic *haglōną (“to hail”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hailje (“to hail”), West Frisian heilje (“to hail”), Dutch hagelen (“to hail”), German Low German hageln (“to hail”), German hageln (“to hail”), Danish hagle (“to hail”), Swedish hagla (“to hail”), Norwegian Nynorsk hagle, hagla (“to hail”), Faroese hegla (“to hail”), Icelandic hagla (“to hail”).


hail

en-adj

hail (comparative hailer, superlative hailest)

hailer (comparative)
hailest (superlative)

From Middle English heil (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, entire, healthy”). The verb is from Middle English heilen, itself from the adjective. Doublet of whole, hale, and heil.


hail

[…] Farewel happy Fields / Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail / Infernal world, and thou profoundeſt Hell / Receive they new Poſſeſſor: […]

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 249–252:

(transitive) To greet; give salutation to; salute.

Such a Son as all men hail'd me happy;

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 28:

He was hailed as a hero.

(transitive) To name; to designate; to call.

Hail a taxi.

'Cause I've got one hand in my pocket / And the other one is hailin' a taxi cab

1995, Alanis Morissette (lyrics and music), “Hand In My Pocket”, in Jagged Little Pill:

(transitive) To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.

In Melbourne, you would usually have to hail a tram when you are travelling late at night and there are no other passengers waiting at your stop.

(transitive, by extension, UK, Australia) To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.

(transitive) To signal in order to initiate communication with.

(transitive) In the game of uppies and downies, to throw (the ball) repeatedly up and down at the goal location, in order to score a point.

(from) to originate (from), be native (to) or be based (in)

наричам

to name, to designate (as someone/something)

өндәшеү

to call out loudly in order to gain the attention of

zamávat

to signal in order to initiate communication with


hail

Hail, brave friend.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

(archaic or poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.


hail

Alternative form of heil (“healthy, sound”)


hail

Alternative form of heil (“health, welfare”)


hail

From Old Frisian heil, from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz.


hail

hail (masculine nominative singular)
hailu (feminine nominative singular)
hail (neuter nominative singular)
hailanā (accusative masculine singular)
hailā (accusative feminine singular)
hail (accusative neuter singular)
hailas (genitive masculine singular)
haileʀā (feminine genitive singular)
hailas (genitive neuter singular)
hailumē (dative masculine singular)
haileʀē (dative feminine singular)
hailumē (dative neuter singular)
hailu (instrumental masculine singular)
haileʀu (feminine instrumental singular)
hailu (instrumental neuter singular)
hailē (masculine nominative plural)
hailō (feminine nominative plural)
hailu (neuter nominative plural)
hailā (accusative masculine plural)
hailā (accusative feminine plural)
hailu (accusative neuter plural)
haileʀō (genitive masculine plural)
haileʀō (feminine genitive plural)
haileʀō (genitive neuter plural)
hailēm (dative masculine plural)
hailum (dative masculine plural)
hailēm (dative feminine plural)
hailum (dative feminine plural)
hailēm (dative neuter plural)
hailum (dative neuter plural)
hailēm (instrumental masculine plural)
hailum (instrumental masculine plural)
hailēm (feminine instrumental plural)
hailum (feminine instrumental plural)
hailēm (instrumental neuter plural)
hailum (instrumental neuter plural)

desctree

Old English: hāl, hǣl
Middle English: hole
English: whole
Scots: hole, holl
⇒ Yola: haoleghey
Northern Middle English: hal
Geordie English: hyel
Scots: hale

Old Frisian: hēl

Saterland Frisian: heel

West Frisian: hiel

Old Saxon: hēl

Middle Low German: hêl, heil

Low German: hel, heel, heil

Old Dutch: *hēl, heil

Middle Dutch: hêel
Dutch: heel
Afrikaans: heel

Old High German: heil
Middle High German: heil
German: heil


hail

hail (nominative singular)
hailiʀu (nominative plural)
hail (accusative singular)
hailiʀu (accusative plural)
hailiʀi (genitive singular)
hailiʀō (genitive plural)
hailiʀi (dative singular)
hailiʀum (dative plural)
hailiʀi (instrumental singular)
hailiʀum (instrumental plural)

Old English: hǣl

Old Saxon: hēl

Middle Low German: heil

Old Dutch: *heil

Middle Dutch: heil

Dutch: heil

Afrikaans: heil

Old High German: heil

Middle High German: heil

German: Heil


hail

free or recovered from disease, healthy, wholesome

free from injury, safe, sound, unhurt (of people, parts of the body, etc.)

whole, entire, complete, sound, unbroken, undamaged (of material objects and of time, numbers etc.)

hail an fere

in perfect health or condition, strong, unbroken

hail Yuil

the old Christmas season from December 25th to the twelfth night

From Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (“healthy, whole”).


hail

head

hail (third-person singular simple present hails, present participle hailin, simple past hailt, past participle hailt)

hails (present singular third-person)
hailin (participle present)
hailt (past)
hailt (participle past)


hail

(sports) to drive the ball through the goal, etc.


hail

(sports) goal, the shout when a goal is scored, the goal area


hail

From Old English hæġl, hæġel, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”), or from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”).


hail

hail (definite accusative haili, plural hailler)

haili (accusative definite)
hailler (plural)

From Ottoman Turkish حائل (hail), from Arabic حَائِل (ḥāʔil). An Ottoman Turkish homophone from Arabic هَائِل (hāʔil) did not survive to modern Turkish.