hale vs whole what difference
what is difference between hale and whole
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
Alternative forms
- hole (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hole (“healthy, unhurt, whole”), from Old English hāl (“healthy, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, safe, sound”) (compare West Frisian hiel, Low German heel/heil, Dutch heel, German heil, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hel, Norwegian Nynorsk heil), from Proto-Indo-European *kóylos (“healthy, whole”). Compare Welsh coel (“omen”), Breton kel (“omen, mention”), Old Prussian kails (“healthy”), Old Church Slavonic цѣлъ (cělŭ, “healthy, unhurt”). Related to hale, health, hail, hallow, heal, and holy.
The spelling with wh-, introduced in the 15th century, was for disambiguation with hole, and was absent in Scots.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [həʊɫ], [hɒʊɫ]
- (US) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoʊɫ]
- Homophone: hole
- Rhymes: -əʊl
Adjective
whole (comparative wholer or more whole, superlative wholest or most whole)
- Entire, undivided.
- Synonyms: total; see also Thesaurus:entire
- 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
- Used as an intensifier.
- I brought a whole lot of balloons for the party. She ate a whole bunch of french fries.
- 2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins (→ISBN):
- There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by. A lone grassy hill overlooks it all, well above the flood line, big enough to pitch a whole mess of tents [on].
- 2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning, Brindle and Glass (→ISBN):
- I’m thinking, thanks a whole fuck of a lot, Robert. You could have laid that on me weeks ago.
- Sound, uninjured, healthy.
- Synonyms: hale, well; see also Thesaurus:healthy
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, X, lines 5-6
- Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.
- (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
- (mining) As yet unworked.
Translations
Adverb
whole (comparative more whole, superlative most whole)
- (colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completely
Translations
Noun
whole (plural wholes)
- Something complete, without any parts missing.
- Synonyms: entireness, totality; see also Thesaurus:entirety
- Meronym: part
- An entirety.
Translations
Derived terms
Further reading
- All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar
References
- whole at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Howle, howel