Where does “peal” come from?
Peal comes from Middle English pele, from Middle English appel, from Latin appellare meaning "to call to," from Latin ad- meaning "to" combined with Latin appellare.
peal (English): A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as...
Definitions
- A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as...
Ancestry of “peal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | pele | shovel, peel |
| 2 | Middle English | apel | — |
| 3 | Old French | apel | call |
| 4 | Old French | apeler | to call, to call out |
| 5 | Latin | appellō | to drive or move to |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |