pall

Meanings

Verb

Noun

Origin

  • From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium ("cloak; covering") (and thus a pallium), probably from palla (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- ("to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth")) + -ium.
  • From the noun pall.
  • Formed by aphesis from appal, appall, possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall.
  • Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle English pallen ("to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to lose spirit"), formed by aphesis from apallen, from palleō (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pelH-) + -idus.
  • From the verb pall.

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