Where does “pæl” come from?
pæl (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish pæl, from Old Frisian pēl, from Pali pāli, from Latin pālus, from Proto-Italic pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂ǵ-slos, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂ǵ- — to attach.
Ancestry of “pæl”, step by step