Where does “peil” come from?
peil (Middle English) comes from Middle English apel, from Old French apel, from Old French apeler, from Latin appellō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
Ancestry of “peil”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | apel | — |
| 2 | Old French | apel | call |
| 3 | Old French | apeler | to call, to call out |
| 4 | Latin | appellō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “peil”