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PollEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Polly, by rhyming with Molly, from Mary.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗PollEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
pollEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adjective), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”). Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pollEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Perhaps a shortening of Polly, a common name for pet parrots.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗pollEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”), as in hoi polloi.
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- PollMiddle English · word_poll_sb
Poll, sb. poll, head, WW; head, person, WA; pol, PP; polles, pl., PP. Comb.: poll-ax, pole-axe, C; polax, CM.
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Poll, v. to cut off the hair, WW, Manip.; powled, pt. pl., WW; pollid, pp., W, W2; powled, WW. Comb.: polled hen, C (p. 125); pulled hen, bald, moulting hen, C.
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Is kapu merely a misspelling of tapu?
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