Where does “pwl” come from?

pwl (Welsh) comes from English Pool, from Middle English pool, from Old English pōl, from Proto-West Germanic *pōl, from Proto-Germanic pōlaz, from Proto-Indo-European bale-, from Yoruba ilé — home; house.

pwl (Welsh): bout, fit, paroxysm, attack of an illness

Definitions

  1. bout, fit, paroxysm, attack of an illness

Ancestry of “pwl”, step by step

pwl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Pool

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPoolOS grid ref SW6641
2Middle Englishpool—
3Old Englishpōlpool
4Proto-West Germanic*pōl—
5Proto-Germanicpōlazpool
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbale-bog, marsh
7Yorubailéhome; house

via English pull

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpullTo apply a force to so that it comes toward the...
2Middle Englishpullento pull
3Irish-aíEnding of the plural of certain nouns; Agent...
4Old Irish-ide—
5Old Irish-deUsed to form adjectives from nouns, denoting...

Words derived from “pwl”

Every word from Yoruba ilé →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bale- →Every word from Proto-Germanic pōlaz →