Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)Healthy, whole, safe.

Examples

105 sentences

  1. The rain turned to hail.

    Дощ перетворився на град. — deniko

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  2. Have you ever seen it hail?

    ruТы когда-нибудь видел град? — Ooneykcall

    deHast du es je hageln sehen? — lilygilder

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  3. There's no need to hail a taxi.

    deEs ist nicht nötig ein Taxi zu rufen. — RandomUsername

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  4. Tom hailed a cab.

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  5. I hailed a cab.

    deIch habe ein Taxi gerufen. — Luiaard

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Origin

From Middle English heyl (“healthy, sound”), from Old Norse heill, from Proto-Germanic *ha

From Middle English heyl (“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.

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Forms

hailer, hailest
Comparativehailer Lesson
Superlativehailest Lesson

regular

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hagglinghahhaikuhailstonehairA1haircutA1
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