Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. · To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. · To furnish with poles for support. · To convey on poles.
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes. · A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage. · A type of basic fishing rod. · A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos Proto-Italic *pākslos Latin pālusbor. Proto-West Germanic *pālu Proto-West Germanic *pāl Old English pāl Middle English pole English poleFrom Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus. Cognates Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).
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- Root classification mention*peh₂ǵ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionpoleenm
- Inherited-form mentionpālang
- Inherited-form mention*pālgmw-pro
- Derivation mentionpālusla
- Derivation mention*pākslositc-pro
- Derivation mention*peh₂ǵ-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionpeel#Etymology 2en
- Doublet mentionpale#Etymology 2en
- Doublet mentionpalusen
- Cognate mentionpalesco
- Cognate mentionpulfrr
- Cognate mentionpoalfy
- Cognate mentionpaalnl
- Cognate mentionPfahlde
- Cognate mentionpælda
- Cognate mentionpålesv
- Cognate mentionpállis
- Cognate mentionfæcang
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