英语词汇“Indo-European root: pāl-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: pāl-

释义

‌‌pāl-
To touch, feel, shake. Earlier *peh₂l‑, colored to *pah₂l‑, becoming *pāl‑.

1. feel, from Old English fēlan, to examine by touch, feel;
2. sprachgefühl, from Old High German vuolen, to feel. Both a and b from Germanic *fōljan, to feel.
Reduplicated zero-grade form *pal-p‑ (from *pəl-p(ə)‑.
1. palp, from Latin palpus, a touching;
2. palpable, palpate¹, palpitate, from Latin palpārī, palpāre, to stroke gently, touch;
3. palpebra, from Latin palpebra, eyelid (< "that which shakes or moves quickly").
Perhaps expressive reduplicated form *pal-pal‑. papilionaceous, papillon, papillote, pavilion, from Latin pāpiliō, butterfly.
Perhaps suffixed zero-grade form *pal-yo‑. catapult, from Greek pallein, to sway, brandish.
Perhaps suffixed form *psal-yo‑. psalm, psaltery, from Greek psallein, to pluck, play the harp (but more likely of imitative origin).

[Pokorny 1. G. pel‑ 801, polo‑ 841.]

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