Hale Definition

Origin of Hale

• From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English geholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- ‘to lift’ (compare Latin excellere ‘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.

  From Wiktionary

• Representing a Northern dialectal form of Old English hāl (“whole”), perhaps influenced by Old Norse heill (Webster's suggests ‘partly from Old English, partly from Old Norse’), both from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂ilus (“healthy, whole”). Compare whole, hail (adjective).

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• Middle English halen to pull, drag from Old French haler of Germanic origin kelə-² in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hailaz (“whole, healthy”).

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• Middle English from Old English hāl kailo- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Old English dative form of halh (“hollow, nook”)

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