Where does “pele” come from?
pele (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.
pele (Middle English): shovel, peel
Definitions
- shovel, peel
Ancestry of “pele”, step by step
pele traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English apel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | apel | — |
| 2 | Old French | apel | call |
| 3 | Old French | apeler | to call, to call out |
| 4 | Latin | appellō | to drive or move to |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |