Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos
4. Proto-Italic *pākslos
5. Latin pālusbor.
6. Proto-West Germanic *pālu
7. Proto-West Germanic *pāl
8. Old English pāl
9. Middle English pole
10. English poleFrom Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”). See: Middle English Nouns '
pole', Latin Nouns '
pālus', Dutch Nouns '
paal', German Nouns '
Pfahl', Swedish Nouns '
påle', Icelandic Nouns '
páll', Old English Nouns '
fæc'.
Verbs referencing "pole"
Dutch Nouns
pool, Spanish Nouns
palo, Finnish Nouns
paalu, German Nouns
Pohl.