Borrowed from Latin pullus .
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitization- pullusLatin · n13314
pullus ī, m Source etymology: 3 PV- , a young animal, foal, young, offspring : ranae, H.: columbini: gallinacei, L.: ciconiae, Iu.: ex ovis pulli orti, chicks.—A young fowl, chicken : mea pullis in parte catini, H.: cave
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pullus adj. Source etymology: 2 PAL- , dark-colored, blackish-gray, dusky, blackish : ne maculis infuscet vellera pullis, V.: capilli, O.: myrtus, dusky , H.: praetor cum tunicā pullā, i. e. dressed like a common workman
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pullus
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Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus . Doublet of pul .
Disputed ; two etymologies are plausible:
Alternatively onomatopoeic , like Swedish pulla .
Probably from Proto-Indo-European * polHwós (maybe a weak form of * pélHus ) or * polHnós , from the root * pelH- ( “ pale, gray ” ) , thereby related to palleō , though the formal details are debated .
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