Wiktionary

pell

See also: Pell, Pëll, pell', and pełł

English

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

Noun

edit

pell (plural pells)

  1. A fur or hide.
  2. A lined cloak or its lining.
  3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
    • 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty′s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,
      The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer′s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller′s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.
      He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.
  4. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
  5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.
Derived terms
edit
edit

Etymology 2

edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

edit

pell (third-person singular simple present pells, present participle pelling, simple past and past participle pelled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To pelt; to knock about.

See also

edit

Breton

edit

Etymology

edit

Cognate with Welsh pell (“far”).

Adverb

edit

pell

  1. far

Catalan

edit

Etymology

edit

Inherited from Old Catalan pell~peyl, from Latin pellem, from Proto-Italic *pelnis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

pell f (plural pells)

  1. (anatomy) skin
  2. pelt

Derived terms

edit

References

edit

German

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Verb

edit

pell

  1. singular imperative of pellen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pellen

Welsh

edit

Etymology

edit

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-so-,[1] from *kʷel- (“to turn; to revolve around, sojourn”).[2] Compare Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “end, boundary, completion”) for a similar semantic development from the same root.

Pronunciation

edit

Adjective

edit

pell (feminine singular pell, plural pell, equative pelled, comparative pellach, superlative pellaf)

  1. far, distant

Derived terms

edit

Mutation

edit
Mutated forms of pell
radical soft nasal aspirate
pell bell mhell phell

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

edit
  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pell”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  2. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 89 i
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pell&oldid=82749948"
  NODES
Note 2