Hales

From Old English halh (“hollow, nook”).

• IPA^(key): /heɪlz/
• Homophone: hails

Hales

1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A village and civil parish (served by Hales and Heckingham Parish Council) in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM3897).
3. A village in Loggerheads parish, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7133).

• Hales-Jewett theorem
• Norton in Hales

• Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, halse, heals, leash, selah, shale, sheal

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈha.les/, [ˈhäɫ̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.les/, [ˈäːles]

Hales m sg (genitive Halētis); third declension

1. A river in Lucania, now the Alento

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Hales in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Hales”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly