paal
Afrikaans
/pɑːl/
noun
Definitions
- post, pole, beam
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish paal (pole, post, beam, stake) inherited from Middle Dutch pâel inherited from Old Dutch pāl derived from Latin pālus (stake, prop, pale, post, pole, stay).
Origin
Latin
pālus
Gloss
stake, prop, pale, post, pole, stay
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- palus English
- paalu Finnish
- impālāre Latin
- impālō Latin
- palaris Latin
- pālus Latin
- trepalium Latin
- palo Italian
- aanlegpaal Dutch, Flemish
- doelpaal Dutch, Flemish
- flitspaal Dutch, Flemish
- hectometerpaal Dutch, Flemish
- heipaal Dutch, Flemish
- kapperspaal Dutch, Flemish
- krabpaal Dutch, Flemish
- lantaarnpaal Dutch, Flemish
- meerpaal Dutch, Flemish
- mijlpaal Dutch, Flemish
- paal Dutch, Flemish
- paalbewoner Dutch, Flemish
- paaldans Dutch, Flemish
- paaldanser Dutch, Flemish
- paalwerk Dutch, Flemish
- paalwoning Dutch, Flemish
- paalworm Dutch, Flemish
- palen Dutch, Flemish
- pispaal Dutch, Flemish
- schandpaal Dutch, Flemish
- strandpaal Dutch, Flemish
- totempaal Dutch, Flemish
- verkeerspaal Dutch, Flemish
- wurgpaal Dutch, Flemish
- pal French
- empalar Spanish, Castilian
- palo Spanish, Castilian
- *peh₂ǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pāǵe- Proto-Indo-European
- *palaz Proto-Germanic
- pal Polish
- pal Old English
- pex Old French
- par Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pal Indonesian
- pâel Middle Dutch
- pfal Old High German
- pfāl Old High German
- hei Afrikaans
- heipaal Afrikaans
- pal Middle French
- *pālaz gmw-pro
- pāl Old Dutch
- pao Old Portuguese
- *pākslos Proto-Italic
- palu Asturian
- pâl Friulian
- pal Old Occitan
- palissada Old Occitan
- ipala Xhosa