Where does “appel” come from?
Appeal derives from Old French apeler, from Latin appellare, formed from the prefix ad- meaning "to" and pellere meaning "to drive," literally "to drive toward."
appel (English): An act of striking the ground with the leading...
Definitions
- An act of striking the ground with the leading...
Ancestry of “appel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | appel | call; appeal |
| 2 | French | appeler | to call; to call, phone, ring; to call for,... |
| 3 | Latin | appellō | to drive or move to |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |