pell
English
noun
Definitions
- A fur or hide.
- A lined cloak or its lining.
- A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
- (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
- An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pellis (skin, pelt, hide, animal skin, covering) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-, *pel-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pel-ni-, *pel-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scytalosagittipelliger Latin
- pellarius Latin
- pellicea Latin
- pelliger Latin
- pellis Latin
- Pelz German
- pellagra Italian
- pelle Italian
- pelisse French
- πέλλα Ancient Greek
- *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- *pel-ni-, *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- pilz Old Norse
- pelette Old French
- pels Icelandic
- pelica Galician
- pielcea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- piele Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pelle Middle Dutch
- pell Old Irish
- *pelnis Proto-Italic
- pels Norwegian
- peâ Bourguignon