Where does “pilaarheilige” come from?
pilaarheilige (Dutch) comes from Dutch pilaar, from Middle Dutch pilaer, from Latin pilāre, from Latin pila, from Latin pīlus, from Latin pīlum, from Proto-Italic pistlom, from Proto-Indo-European pis-tlo- — to grind, to crush.
pilaarheilige (Dutch): stylite
Ancestry of “pilaarheilige”, step by step