hale vs haul what difference
what is difference between hale and haul
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /heɪl/
- Rhymes: -eɪl
- Homophone: hail
Etymology 1
From Middle English hele, hæle, from Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from Proto-Germanic *hailį̄ (“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.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,
And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.
- Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegy upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney
- all heedless of his dearest hale
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
Translations
Etymology 2
From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”) (whence whole), from Middle 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.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift
- Last year we thought him strong and hale.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- “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?”
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift
Usage notes
- Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase hale and hearty.
Antonyms
- unhale
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.
- 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.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
Translations
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
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haːlə/, [ˈhæːlə]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hali.
Noun
hale c (singular definite halen, plural indefinite haler)
- tail, brush, scut
- bottom, fanny
Inflection
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
Verb
hale
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of halen
French
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
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
From a form of Old English halh without the final -h; compare hāle (dative). Doublet of halgh (attested only in placenames), whence English haugh.
Noun
hale (plural hales)
- corner, nook, cranny, hiding place
Alternative forms
- hal
Descendants
- English: hale
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”).
Noun
hale (plural hales)
- hale (temporary structure for housing, entertaining, eating meals, etc.)
Alternative forms
- halle
Descendants
- English: hale
References
- “hāle, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
Verb
hale
- Alternative form of haylen (“to hail”)
Etymology 4
Noun
hale (plural hales)
- Alternative form of halle (“hall”)
Etymology 5
Noun
hale (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)
Etymology 6
Adjective
hale
- Alternative form of hole (“healthy, whole”)
Etymology 7
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
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/
Noun
hale f
- nominative plural of hala
- accusative plural of hala
- vocative plural of hala
Spanish
Verb
hale
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of halar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of halar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of halar.
English
Etymology
From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɔːl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɔl/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːl
- Homophone: hall
Verb
haul (third-person singular simple present hauls, present participle hauling, simple past and past participle hauled)
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- Antonym: veer
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- Antonym: veer
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
Derived terms
Related terms
- hale (verb)
Translations
Noun
haul (plural hauls)
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
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. - (Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
Synonyms
- (amount of illegal loot taken): see Thesaurus:booty
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- hula
Luxembourgish
Verb
haul
- second-person singular imperative of haulen
Middle English
Noun
haul
- Alternative form of hayle (“hail”)
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle Welsh heul, from Proto-Celtic *sāwol (compare Cornish howl, Breton heol; compare also Old Irish súil (“eye”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /haɨ̯l/
- (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /hai̯l/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /hɔi̯l/
Noun
haul m (plural heuliau, not mutable)
- sun
Derived terms
- Cysawd yr Haul (“Solar System”)
- machlud haul (“sunset”)
- heulog (“sunny”)
See also
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English halle, from Old English heall, from Proto-West Germanic *hallu.
Noun
haul
- hall
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith