hailstone

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• General-American: /ˈheɪlstoʊn/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EY1 L S T OW2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hailston, haylestone, hawelston, hawleston, from Old English hagolstān (“hailstone”), from Proto-West Germanic *haglastain, from Proto-Germanic *haglastainaz, equivalent to hail + stone. Cognate with West Frisian heilstien (“hailstone”), Saterland Frisian Hailsteen (“hailstone”), Dutch hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Low German Hagelsteen (“hailstone”), German Hagelstein (“hailstone”), Swedish hagelsten (“hailstone”), Icelandic haglsteinn (“hailstone”).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Assamese: শিল বৰষুণ (xil boroxun) — single ball of hail
• Belarusian: гра́дзіна (hrádzina) — single ball of hail
• Chinese Mandarin: 冰雹 (bīngbáo) — single ball of hail
• Chinese Mandarin: 雹子 (báozi) — single ball of hail
• Cornish: keseren — single ball of hail
• Czech: kroupa — single ball of hail
• Dutch: hagelsteen — single ball of hail
• Dzongkha: སེརཝ (ser.w) — single ball of hail
• Esperanto: hajlero — single ball of hail
• Finnish: rae — single ball of hail
• French: grêlon — single ball of hail
• Galician: sarabia — single ball of hail
• Galician: saraiba — single ball of hail
• Galician: pedrazo — single ball of hail
• Galician: saragana — single ball of hail
• Galician: escarabán — single ball of hail
• Galician: gresillo — single ball of hail
• Galician: garaullo — single ball of hail
• German: Hagelkorn — single ball of hail
• Ancient Greek: σφενδόνη (sphendónē) — single ball of hail
• Hindi: ओला (olā) — single ball of hail
• Hungarian: jégszem — single ball of hail
• Icelandic: hagl — single ball of hail
• Ido: greluno — single ball of hail
• Japanese: 雹 (hyō) — single ball of hail
• Kankanaey: dalalo — single ball of hail
• Korean: 우박 (ubak) — single ball of hail
• Lithuanian: krušos gabalėlis — single ball of hail
• Māori: whatu — single ball of hail
• Norman: brîn d'grile — single ball of hail
• Nupe: tákùn Sòkó — single ball of hail
• Nupe: tákùn yán ele — single ball of hail
• Polish: kulka gradu — single ball of hail
• Polish: gradzina — single ball of hail
• Polish: gradowina — single ball of hail
• Portuguese: granizo — single ball of hail
• Romanian: grindină — single ball of hail
• Russian: гра́дина (grádina) — single ball of hail
• Scottish Gaelic: clach-mheallain — single ball of hail
• Serbo-Croatian: кру́па — single ball of hail
• Serbo-Croatian: krúpa — single ball of hail
• Sicilian: cugghiànnulu — single ball of hail
• Sicilian: grànnula — single ball of hail
• Slovak: krúpa — single ball of hail
• Spanish: granizo — single ball of hail
• Spanish: cascarrina — single ball of hail
• Spanish: pedrisco — single ball of hail
• Spanish: pedrisquero — single ball of hail
• Swedish: hagelkorn — single ball of hail
• Tamil: கல்மாரி (kalmāri) — single ball of hail
• Tamil: ஆலங்கட்டி (ālaṅkaṭṭi) — single ball of hail
• Taos: į̀ękǫ́na — single ball of hail
• Telugu: కరక (karaka) — single ball of hail
• Thai: ลูกเห็บ (lûuk-hèp) — single ball of hail
• Turkish: dolu tanesi — single ball of hail
• Ukrainian: гради́на (hradýna) — single ball of hail
• Volapük: grälaston — single ball of hail
• Welsh: ceseiren — single ball of hail
• Welsh: cenllysgen — single ball of hail
• Yoruba: òkúta yìnyín — single ball of hail