Definition

[maddie teller-kook]

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>From: meadhbh at neosoft.com (maddie teller-kook)
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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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