Middle English Dictionary Entry
ille hail phr.
Entry Info
| Forms | ille hail phr. Also -haile, -heil, il hail(le, -hale, il(l)a hail(e, hille hail, hil(la haile, iller-, illir-. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI illu heilli. Forms with -r are probably due to analogy with gọ̄der hēle; ?also cp. OI illr adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) As noun: til ~, to perdition; with ~, with a curse on you!; (b) as adj.: misfortunate, unlucky, ill-fated; (c) as adv.: misfortunately, unluckily, disastrously; (d) as interj.: bad luck!, damnation!; (e) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)352/116 : Ȝa, þou comaundis lightly as a lorde, Come helpe to haale, with ille haile!
- ?c1450 Nicod.(1) (Sion Arc.L.40.2/E.25)695 : Vs alle till illerhayle [vr. wrotherhail], I doute we haf done wrange.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)72/259 : Wyth ylahayll! Certis this is a sotell swayn!
b
- c1380 Vncomly in (Arun 292)p.292 : Il hayl were thu boren ȝif thu make defawt.
- c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108)447 : Ille hail beo þou, false god!
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)232/136 : Illa-hayll was thou borne!
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7320 : Ful ilhail [Frf: illa hayle] sal þai it se.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)15867 : Ful il-hail þan troud yee Iudas, þat maledight.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)257 : Ful ilhayle þai þar spendyng spende þat fyndes na frute at þe ende.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)4905 : Ful il haile [Vsp: ilhale] dide ȝe þat dede.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)21923 : Ful ilhail [Phys-E: illir haile; Vsp: iuel-hail; Trin-C: wroþerhele] he giue vs witt, Bot if vr lijf be ledd wid itt.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)2956 : Ful ille hail er ȝe cumen heder.
d
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4089 : Il hail [vrr.Ille hayl, Ilhaille, Il a hayle], by god, Aleyn, thow is a fonne!
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)13944 : The Emperour seyde thanne, 'hylhayle! We may now sone be al for-done.'
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)253/287 : What! ille hayle! I hope þat I be hole.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1066 : Bot þar was na man so nemyll þat him hit couthe. 'A! hilla haile [vr. euell hale],' quod Alexander.
e
- (1275) in Sundby Dial.Wor.247 : Rob. Hillehayl.
- (1282) in Sundby Dial.Wor.247 : Nic. Illehayl.
- (1283) in Sundby Dial.Wor.247 : Illeheil.
- (1287) in Sundby Dial.Wor.247 : Illehail.