hale

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Health, welfare. archaic,uncountable
    — Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle, / And of their taunting toies reſt with il hayle.
动词 v.
  1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly. transitive
    — For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
形容词 adj.
  1. Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. dated
    — His stomach too begins to fail: / Last year we thought him strong and hale; / But now he's quite another thing: / I wish he may hold out till spring!

词形变化

haler comparative halest superlative hales present,singular,third-person haling participle,present haled participle,past haled past

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English hale, an alteration of hele (“health”) after Etymology 1. Cognate with Scots hale (“health”), German Heil (“salvation, well-being”).
词源 3
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 κελέοντες (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.
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