Masculine
pal
Meaning
- (masculine) stake
- (masculine) pole
- (masculine) pale
Concepts
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pal/
Etymology
In summary
From Old French pal (12th c.), variant of pel, from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”). Doublet of pieu. The Trésor informatisé considers Old French pal a learned borrowing, but it might be a dialectal variant instead.
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