hail

Meaning

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.

hailstone

greet

how-do-you-do

say hello

say hi

so be it

chilly chilly rain

rhapsodise

hail-stone

call someone loudly

say hallo

fall as hail

appeal to

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/heɪl/

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”).