• n. 冰雹；致敬；招呼；一陣
• vt. 致敬；招呼；向...歡呼；猛發(fā)；使象下雹樣落下（過去式hailed，過去分詞hailed，現(xiàn)在分詞hailing，第三人稱單數(shù)hails）
• vi. 招呼；下雹
• int. 萬歲；歡迎
• n. (Hail)人名；(阿拉伯、捷)海爾

來自古英語hals,健康，詞源同holy,health.即祝您健康，引申詞義歡呼，贊頌。比較漢語萬歲，萬歲，萬萬歲。

來自古英語hagol,冰雹，進一步可能來自PIE*kaghlo,小石子，鵝卵石，或來自PIE*kel, 冷，詞源同cold,glacier.字母g脫落，拼寫演變比較nail,rule.

hail

hail: Not surprisingly, hail ‘frozen rain’ [OE] and hail ‘call out’ [12] are quite unrelated. The former, together with its German and Dutch relative hagel, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *hagalaz, which is related ultimately to Greek kákhlēx ‘pebble’. The verb hail is closely related to hale and whole. It comes from the noun hail, which in turn was a nominal use of the now obsolete adjective hail ‘healthy’ (preserved in wassail, literally ‘be healthy’). This was borrowed from heill, the Old Norse counterpart of English whole.
=> hale, wassail, whole

hail (interj.)

salutation in greeting, c. 1200, from Old Norse heill "health, prosperity, good luck," or a similar Scandinavian source, and in part from Old English shortening of w?s h?il "be healthy" (see health; and compare wassail).

The interj. hail is thus an abbreviated sentence expressing a wish, 'be whole,' i. e., be in good health, and equiv. to L. salve, plural salvete, or ave, plural avete .... [Century Dictionary]

hail (n.)

"frozen rain, pellets of ice falling in showers," Old English h?gl, hagol (Mercian hegel) "hail, hailstorm," also the name of the rune for H, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (cognates: Old Frisian heil, Old Saxon, Old High German hagal, Old Norse hagl, German Hagel "hail"), probably from PIE *kaghlo- "pebble" (cognates: Greek kakhlex "round pebble").

hail (v.1)

"to greet or address with 'hail!,'" also "to drink toasts," c. 1200, heilen; to call to from a distance," 1560s (in this sense originally nautical), from hail (interj.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Hail fellow well met is from 1580s as a descriptive adjective, from a familiar greeting; hail fellow (adj.) "overly familiar" is from 1570s. Hail Mary (c. 1300) is the angelic salutation (Latin ave Maria) in Luke i:58, used as a devotional recitation. As a desperation play in U.S. football, attested by 1940. To hail from is 1841, originally nautical. "Hail, Columbia," the popular patriotic song, also was a euphemism for "hell" in American English slang from c. 1850-1910.

hail (v.2)

Old English hagalian "to fall as hail," from root of hail (n.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Figurative use from mid-15c.

1. The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.

受害者被一陣彈雨擊中。

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2. This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.

這看起來是一部嬉皮士時代的影片。

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3. Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.

向新科冠軍本·賈利·達阿爾布雷致敬。

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4. I hail from Brighton.

我來自布賴頓。

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5. I hurried away to hail a taxi.

我趕緊去叫出租車。

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