Etymograph

English

haulout

From haul + out.

A compound of haul + out

Old French haler ‘to haul, pull’

Middle English hālen

English haul

Proto-Indo-European *úd ‘upwards, away’

Proto-Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Proto-West Germanic *ūt ‘out’

Old English ūt ‘out’

Middle English out

English out

Today it means

noun A site, on land or ice, visited by pinnipeds when they temporarily leave the water between periods of foraging.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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