Definition
Scott Jernigan
jernigan at UH.EDU
Tue Jan 9 09:09:26 PST 1996
Jonathan,
The best I can come up with this morning is that "pell" probably
comes from the medieval Latin word "pela, pelum", meaning a stake
or paling. Possibly refered to the post that they smacked about.
As an aside, "pell" in Medieval Latin was the membrane of parchment.
Source: Latham, <Revised Medieval Latin Word-List>, Oxford 1980.
Andrew Scarhart
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