Definition
maddie teller-kook
meadhbh at neosoft.com
Mon Jan 15 15:40:03 PST 1996
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>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.
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> To add feul to the fire try the following minor definition and derivatives:
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>pel- Important derivatives are: anvil, felt, filter, pulsate, pulse, push,
compel, expel, propel, repel, polish, and appeal.
>To thrust, strike, drive.
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> 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.
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>Jonathan ap Morgan
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