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Where does “pealeth” come from?

pealeth (English) comes from English peal, from Middle English pele, from Middle English apel, from Old French apel, from Old French apeler, from Latin appellō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

pealeth (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “pealeth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpealA loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as...
2Middle Englishpele—
3Middle Englishapel—
4Old Frenchapelcall
5Old Frenchapelerto call, to call out
6Latinappellō—
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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