Greeting Hails

[Grsartor at AOL.COM]

I think it is reasonable to expect that "hails" would change like other  
adjectives. It is perhaps an implied imperative (it translates an imperative 
in  the original Greek), being in full something like
 
be thou hale.
 
The plural "hailai" is attested in the sense "hale/healthy", as in Matt  
9:12
 
ni þaurbun hailai lekeis - the hale do not need a doctor.
 
I am unsure why there is a slight difference between the versions in Mark  
and in John of the line "hail, King of the Jews":
 
hails þiudan Iudaie - Mark 15:18
hails þiudans Iudaie - John 19:3
 
The first evidently has "þiudan" as a vocative. If the apparent nominative  
in John is not due to miscopying or looseness of usage it perhaps contains 
an  implied subjunctive - [may] the King of the Jews [be] hale.
 
Gerry T.
 
 
 
In a message dated 30/05/2012 09:48:04 GMT Daylight Time,  
becareful_icanseeyourfuture at hotmail.de writes:

Hello/Hails,
my question is: Does "Hails" change into something  like "haila" or 
"hailos" when it is used to a female or to more people than  one? I can hardly 
believe, that it wouldn't change and the greeting is just  twice attested, in 
"John" and in "Mark". 
Þagka jah liubos  goleinis,
Kevin



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