Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water. · Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. · Ellipsis of swimming pool. · A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).
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- Inherited-form mentionpoolenm
- Inherited-form mentionpōlang · pool
- Inherited-form mentionpōlgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*pōlazgem-pro · pool, pond
- Derivation mention*bōlosine-pro · bog, marsh
- Cognate mentionpuilsco · pool
- Cognate mentionPolstq · pool
- Cognate mentionpoelfy · pool
- Cognate mentionpoelnl · pool
- Cognate mentionPfuhlde · quagmire, mudhole
- Cognate mentionpølda · puddle
- Cognate mentionpölsv · puddle, pool
- Cognate mentionpolluris · puddle
- Cognate mentionbalalt · puddle
- Cognate mentionbalalv · a muddly, treeless depression
- Cognate mentionболо́тоru · swamp, bog, marsh
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