hale (s.xii)

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hale (s.xii)

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  FEW:  *halla 16,129a Gdf:  hale 1 4,404c GdfC:  halle 9,744a TL: hale 4,853 DEAF:  hale H94 DMF:  halle  TLF:  hall  / halle  OED:  hale n.3  / hall n.1  MED:  hale n.2  / hal(le n.  DMLBS:  hala 1131b / halla 1132b
hall,  halle,  hali  
ls(loanword: M.E. (?))
le

Some of the senses of Anglo-Norman hale may indicate borrowing from Middle English, where the same etymon seems to have produced two words, hall n.1 meaning a significant, permanent structure and hale n.3 meaning a less substantial, often temporary structure ('stall, covered market'). The DMLBS reflecs this by having two separate entries. However, the different (and overlapping) senses can be found, to a lesser extent, in Continental French as well (cf. hale 1 and halle).

In its earliest attestation the term appears as a gloss to the otherwise unattested Latin word auliloquium (not included in DMLBS) which the editor of TLL suggests can be interpreted as 'hall'. Without further context in a trilingual glossary the gloss could equally be English or Anglo-Norman.

s.

1archit.stall, structure
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Puis se treent vers la sale Qe ne ert pavilloun ne hale  592
( 1425-26 )  Item paié a un laborer sur lez hales en la cuzine – .viij. d [...] Item pur graund naile a dit mesoun e pres la hale en lez rentz  4 Henry VI
archit.hall, main room
( MS: s.xii ) auliloquium: hali  i 21
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  [...] estoit la mangerie ordeiné issint q'en les hales lui soudan mangassent [...]  203.28
agriculturalarchit.barn, storage place
( 1278 )  E de la hale des blés et les pensions que hom deit au molin de l’estang por molins  i 551
acad.archit.(university) hall, college
( 1379 )  les mestre et escolers de son college appellez Mokel Université Halle en Oxenford, quele college estoit primement funduz par vostre noble progenitour le roi Alford  iii 69
( 1383-84 )  escolers del college appellé le Université Hall en Oxenford  iii 176
gilde hale
gildehale
Taillur Hale
taillur#1
bashalle  halemote  halere 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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