hailstone

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Etymology

From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail +‎ stone. Cognate with Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

Nomen

hailstone (plural hailstones)

1. A single ball of hail, or solid precipitation

Translations

single ball of hail

• Chinese:

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

• Cornish: keseren f
• Czech: kroupa (cs) f
• Dutch: hagelsteen (nl)
• Esperanto: hajlero (eo)
• Finnish: rae (fi)
• French: grêlon (fr) m
• Galician: sarabia (gl), saraiba (gl) f, pedrazo (gl), saragana f, escarabán m, gresillo m, garaullo m
• German: Hagelkorn (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφενδόνη f (sphendónē)

• Hungarian: jégszem (hu)
• Icelandic: hagl (is) n
• Ido: greluno (io)
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• Japanese: 雹 (ja) (ひょう, hyō)
• Korean: 우박 (ko) (ubak)
• Maori: whatu
• Norman: brîn d'grile m
• Polish: kulka gradu f
• Portuguese: granizo (pt) m
• Russian: гра́дина (ru) f (grádina)
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-mheallain f
• Spanish: granizo (es)
• Tamil: கல்மாரி (kalmāri)
• Taos: į̀ękǫ́na
• Thai: ลูกเห็บ (th) (lûuk-hèp)
• Volapük: grälaston (vo)
• Welsh: ceseiren f, cenllysgen f

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