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HALE (1),
whole, healthy, sound. (Scand.) 'For they bene hale
enough, I trowe;' Spenser, Sheph. Kal., July, 107. M.E. heil,
heyl. 'Heyl fro sekenesse, sanus;' Prompt. Parv.—Icel.
heill, hale, sound; Swed. hel; Dan. heel. β.
Cognate with A.S. hál, whence M.E. hool, E. whole. See
Whole.
Der. hail (2), hail
(3). HALE (2),
HAUL, to drag, draw
violently. (E.) M.E. halien, halen; whence mod.
E. hale and haul, dialectal varieties of the same
word. Spelt halie, P. Plowman, B. viii. 95; hale,
Chaucer, Parl. of Foules, 151.—A.S. holian, geholian, to acquire,
get; it occurs as geholode, pl. of the pp., in Gregory's Pastoral Care,
ed. Sweet, p. 209, l. 19. + O. Fries. halia, to fetch. + O. Sax. halón,
to bring, fetch. + Du. halen, to fetch, draw, pull. + Dan. hale, to haul. + Swed.
hala, to haul. + G. holen, to fetch (as a naut. term, to haul); O.H.G.
holón, halón, to summon, fetch. β. Allied to Lat.
calare, to summon, Gk.
καλεῖν, to
summon.—✔KAR, to resound, cry out. See
Calends. Der.
haul, sb., haul-er, haul-age; also halyard,
q.v. ➩
Hale is the older form; we find 'halede hine to grunde' =
haled him to the ground, Layamon, 25888 (later text); haul first occurs in the
pp. ihauled, Life of Beket, ed. W. H. Black, l. 1497. [※] ERRATA HALE
(2),
HAUL, Not (E.), but (F.,—Scand.).
The vowel shews that it must have been borrowed from F. haler, to hale or
haul. This F. word was borrowed, in its turn, from Scandinavian; cf.
Swed. hala, Dan. hale, also O.H.G. halón, as already
given. It makes no difference in the ultimate result, or in
the root, the A.S. holian being cognate with the Scand. and G.
words. The F. haler occurs in the 12th cent. as a nautical
word (Littré).
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