Old English · noun
pal
Normalised pāl
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /pɑːl/
- Syllables
- pɑːl (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- stakepole
Meaning
-
stake
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *pāl, from Latin pālus. Compare Old High German pfāl (German Pfahl), Old Dutch pāl (Dutch paal). Doublet of pǣl, from the variant Proto-West Germanic *pāli.
Descendants
pole
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