Definition

maddie teller-kook meadhbh at neosoft.com
Mon Jan 15 15:35:07 PST 1996


Just to end the debate.  I found the answer to this question by looking in
an etymology reference text.  From the 13th C Old French pal or pel meaning
stake or picket.

 To add feul to the fire try the following minor definition and derivatives:

pel- Important derivatives are:  anvil, felt, filter, pulsate, pulse, push,
compel, expel, propel, repel, polish, and appeal.
To thrust, strike, drive.  

 Suffixed form *pel-de-. 1.  a. ANVIL, from  Old English anfilt(e), anfealt,
anvil ("something beaten on"); b.  (i) FELT, from  Old English felt, felt;
(ii) FILTER, from  Medieval Latin filtrum, filter, piece of felt. Both (i)
and (ii) from  Germanic *feltaz, *filtiz, compressed wool. Both a and b from
Germanic *felt-, *falt-, to beat.

Jonathan ap Morgan





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