hailstone

Englisch

Etymology

From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail +‎ stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Swedish hagelsten (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

Nomen

hailstone (plural hailstones)

1. A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

Derived terms

• hailstone number

 

Translations

single ball of hail

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: শিল বৰষুণ (xil boroxun)
• Belarusian: гра́дзіна f (hrádzina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰雹 (zh) (bīngbáo), 雹子 (zh) (báozi)

• Cornish: keseren f
• Czech: kroupa (cs) f
• Dutch: hagelsteen (nl) m
• Dzongkha: སེརཝ (ser.w)
• Esperanto: hajlero (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rae (fi)
• French: grêlon (fr) m
• Galician: sarabia (gl), saraiba (gl) f, pedrazo (gl), saragana f, escarabán m, gresillo m, garaullo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Hagelkorn (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Hungarian: jégszem (hu)
• Icelandic: hagl (is) n
• Ido: greluno (io)
• Japanese: 雹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō)
• Korean: 우박 (ko) (ubak)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: krušos gabalėlis m
• Maori: whatu
• Norman: brîn d'grile m
• Nupe: tákùn Sòkó, tákùn yán ele
• Polish: kulka gradu f, gradzina f, gradowina f
• Portuguese: granizo (pt) m
• Romanian: grindină (ro) f
• Russian: гра́дина (ru) f (grádina)
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-mheallain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кру́па f

  Roman: krúpa (sh) f

• Slovak: krúpa f
• Spanish: granizo (es)
• Swedish: hagelkorn (sv) n
• Tamil: கல்மாரி (kalmāri)
• Taos: į̀ękǫ́na
• Telugu: కరక (te) (karaka)
• Thai: ลูกเห็บ (th) (lûuk-hèp)
• Turkish: dolu tanesi
• Ukrainian: гради́на f (hradýna)
• Volapük: grälaston (vo)
• Welsh: ceseiren f, cenllysgen f
• Yoruba: òkúta yìnyín

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