hail

«hail» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: hail, greeting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

hail, greeting

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

small balls of ice that fall from storms; in the fairy tale, a greeting meaning welcome. tree →

how it differs from today

Today 'hail' as a greeting is old; we say hello or greetings. The ice sense is still used.

examples

• Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. (Torah EXO.9.26, JPS 1917) tree →
• "Hail, fair maiden!" says the hunter. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.' (Torah EXO.9.28, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

hail

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 107 (Torah 17, tales 90, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 4.0 (Torah alone 13.2); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
• And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.
• He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.
• He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.
• He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hail» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.