UrsprungFrom Old Norse hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (“hail”), which may be from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble, hail”).
Cognates with Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian hagl, Old English hægl and hagol (English hail), Old Frisian heil, Old High German hagal (German Hagel) and Old Saxon hagal (Low German Hagel), Dutch hagel.
- neuter, uncountablehail; a kind of weather
- neutera hail; a grain of the precipitation
- neutera shot (small metal balls used as ammunition)
Formerhagel(indefinite, nominative, singular) · hagels(genitive, indefinite, singular) · haglet(definite, nominative, singular) · haglets(definite, genitive, singular) · hagel(indefinite, nominative, plural) · hagels(genitive, indefinite, plural) · haglen(definite, nominative, plural) · haglens(definite, genitive, plural)