Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. · A hat made of felt. · A felt-tip pen. · A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. · To cover with, or as if with, felt. · To cause (a player) to lose all their chips. · To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*pel- (beat)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionfeltenm
- Inherited-form mentionfeltang
- Inherited-form mention*feltgmw-pro
- Cognate mentionviltnl
- Cognate mentionFilzde
- Cognate mentionfeutrefr
- Derivation mention*piltoine-pro
- Cognate mentionpilleusla
- Cognate mentionплъстьcu
- Cognate mentionplissq
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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