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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.

Ancestry of “pele”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishapel—
2Old Frenchapelcall
3Old Frenchapelerto call, to call out
4Latinappellō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “pele”

  • peal
  • thunderpeal
  • pealeth
  • pealest
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →