paille
French
noun
Definitions
- straw dried grass
- (drinking) straw
- flaw in a gem or metal
Etymology
Inherited from Old French paille (straw, chaff) inherited from Latin palea (chaff, straw) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (dust, flour, fold, skin, hide, cover, wrap, cloth, gray, container, roam, drive, wander, beat, push, earn, chaff, shake, grey, sell, covering, swing, powder, light).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pel-
Gloss
dust, flour, fold, skin, hide, cover, wrap, cloth, gray, container, roam, drive, wander, beat, push, earn, chaff, shake, grey, sell, covering, swing, powder, light
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
皮, 膚, 肌
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- paillard English
- paillette English
- palea English
- paleaceous English
- paleous English
- paljetti Finnish
- palea Latin
- palealis Latin
- palearis Latin
- palearium Latin
- palla Latin
- pallium Latin
- pallor Latin
- pellis Latin
- pellis, pellem Latin
- pollen Latin
- puls Latin
- pulverem Latin
- pulvis Latin
- Paillette German
- paglia Italian
- pagliaccio Italian
- paillette Italian
- paljas Dutch, Flemish
- pias Dutch, Flemish
- paillard French
- paillardement French
- paillarder French
- paillasse French
- paillasson French
- paillette French
- éparpiller French
- paja Spanish, Castilian
- -πλόος Ancient Greek
- διπλόος Ancient Greek
- πέλεια Ancient Greek
- πέλτη Ancient Greek
- πέμπελος Ancient Greek
- πέπλος Ancient Greek
- πελιός Ancient Greek
- πλανάω Ancient Greek
- πλανήτης Ancient Greek
- πωλέω Ancient Greek
- πόλεμος Ancient Greek
- πόλτος Ancient Greek
- *-poltos Proto-Indo-European
- *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- *pel-ni-s Proto-Indo-European
- *pel-sḱo- Proto-Indo-European
- *pelh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *pl̥-yé-ti Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål
- gul Norwegian Bokmål
- paillegul Norwegian Bokmål
- paljett Norwegian Bokmål
- *-falþaz Proto-Germanic
- *falwaz Proto-Germanic
- *falþaną Proto-Germanic
- *falþaz Proto-Germanic
- paljett Swedish
- paljett Norwegian Nynorsk
- पलव Sanskrit
- पलाव Sanskrit
- *pelnъ Proto-Slavic
- *plěna Proto-Slavic
- paille Old French
- pajlo Esperanto
- palla Catalan, Valencian
- pallasso Catalan, Valencian
- paller Catalan, Valencian
- palleta Galician
- pai Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- paie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- plēst Latvian
- spalva Latvian
- païle Norman
- pâle Norman
- pâlle Norman
- *falþan gmw-pro
- palla Old Portuguese
- *ɸaltom Proto-Celtic
- palj Aromanian
- palji Aromanian
- paljiu Aromanian
- Pajass Alemannic German
- palha Occitan
- payares Asturian
- pae Friulian
- pagghia Sicilian
- paja Venetian
- *peliā Proto-Balto-Slavic
- belte Norwegian
- paja Ladino
- lapay Mauritian Creole
- palla Sardinian
- paja Istriot
- *pelpa Old Latin
- peluis Old Latin
- lapay Seychellois Creole
- 𒆜𒀸 Hittite
- pajàs Emilian
- *plikas bat-pro