hale

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   strong and healthy, especially in old age; (verb) to haul or compel to go

   At ninety he was still hale and worked his garden daily.

From Old English hāl ('whole, healthy, sound'), a northern variant of whole, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos ('whole, healthy'). The verb 'to haul, compel' is a separate word from Old French haler.

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