Old English · noun
hægl
Normalised hæġl
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /xæjl/[hæjl]
- Syllables
- xæjl (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- hail
Meaning
-
hail
Hæġl cymþ of rēndropum þonne hī bēoþ ġefrorene upp on þǣre lyfte, and swā siþþan feallað.
Hail comes from raindrops when they're frozen up in the air, and so fall to the ground.
10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year -
the runic character (/h/)
byþ hwītust corna...
Hail is the whitest of grains...
The Old English rune poem
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”).
Descendants
hail
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