hail

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
2. An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
3. A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.

Verb

1. To have hailstones fall from the sky.
2. To send or release hail.
3. To pour down in rapid succession.

Adj

Healthy, whole, safe.

Verb

1. To greet; give salutation to; salute.
2. To name; to designate; to call.
3. To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
4. To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
5. To signal in order to initiate communication with.
6. 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.

Intj

An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/heɪl/

Etimologie (Engels)

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”).