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HaleEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English surname, Old English dative form of halh (“hollow, nook”). * Also as an English surname, from Old English hæle (“hero”). Compare Hain. * As an Irish surname, from mac céile; see McHale. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Halle.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗HALEEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗haleEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole (“healthy; safe; whole”, whence whole), from Old English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗haleEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗haleEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
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 *kelH- (“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 κελέων (keléōn, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- HaleEnglish · e-38538-3663
Hale, hāl, adj. healthy: robust: sound of body.—n. (Spens.) welfare.—n. Hale′ness. [Northern A.S. hál; the S. forms hôl, hool, produce whole. There is a parallel N. form from Norse heill.]
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Hale, hāl, v.t. to drag. [A variant of haul.]
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