hail from

English

Etymology

Ships would declare, by hailing, the port from which they sailed or in which they were registered.

Verb

hail from (third-person singular simple present hails from, present participle hailing from, simple past and past participle hailed from)

to be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence
- 1998, August 23; the episode Lard of the Dance (wikiquote) from the tenth season
  [Willie] Saints be praised. I'm from Scotland! Where do ya hail from?
  
  [Homer] Uh, North... Kilt-town.
My niece speaks French but she hails from Hampshire.

Translations

to be a native of

Dutch: afkomstig zijn van, afstammen van
Finnish: olla kotoisin
Greek: κατάγομαι (el) (katágomai)
Icelandic: vera frá, koma frá
Italian: venire (it), essere originario (followed by di)
Macedonian: поте́кнува (potéknuva)
Portuguese: vir de

Russian: происходи́ть (ru) impf (proisxodítʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: потицати

Roman: poticati (sh)
Spanish: ser oriundo de, proceder de
Turkish: dolu (tr)

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