Hale
Old English, northern variant of hāl ‘whole’.
wiktionary
From Middle English hele, hæle, from Old English hǣlu, hǣl, from Proto-Germanic *hailį̄(“salvation, health”), a noun-derivative of Proto-Germanic *hailaz(“whole, healthy”). Cognate with Scots haill, hale(“health”), German Heil(“salvation, well-being”).
From Northern Middle English hal, hale, variants of hole(“healthy; safe; whole”) (whence whole), from Middle English hāl, from Proto-West Germanic *hail, from Proto-Germanic *hailaz(“whole; entire; healthy”). See whole for more.
From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-(“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō(“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly-(“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell(“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti(“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέοντες(keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul.
etymonline
hale (adj.)
"in good health, robust," Old English hal "healthy, sound, safe; entire; uninjured; genuine, straightforward," from Proto-Germanic *hailaz(source also of Old Frisian hel"complete, full; firm" (of ground), Old High German heil, Old Norse heill "hale, sound," Gothic hails "hale"), from PIE *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen" (see health). The Scottish and northern English form of whole and with a more etymological spelling. It later acquired a literary sense of "free from infirmity" (1734), especially in reference to the aged. Related: Haleness.
hale (v.)
c. 1200, "drag, pull," in Middle English used of arrows, bowstrings, reins, swords, anchors, etc., from Old French haler "to pull, haul, tow, tug" (12c.), from Frankish *halon or Old Dutch halen or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *halon "to call," from PIE root *kele- (2) "to shout." Figurative sense of "to draw (someone) from one condition to another" is late 14c. Related: Haled; haling.
