Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French pal (French pal ) stake (end of the 11th cent. in Old French), stripe in heraldry (1297 in Old French in an isolated attestation in a 15th-cent. manuscript; subsequently from 1660), palisade (1339), space enclosed by stakes (second half of the 14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin pālus stake, wooden post used by Roman soldiers to represent an opponent during fighting practice (see Vegetius De Re Militari 1. 11, 2. 23), in post-classical Latin also palisade (13th cent. in British sources), stripe in heraldry (c1595 in a British source), also pala (feminine) stake (a1190, c1440 in British sources), stripe (1388 in a British source) < an extended form of the base of pacere to agree (see pact n., and compare pax n.¹); the original sense of the base was probably ‘to make fast or firm’. Compare Old Occitan pal (12th cent. or earlier), Italian palo (1130), Spanish palo (12th cent.), Portuguese pau (13th cent. as pao ), Catalan pal (13th cent.). Compare earlier pole n.¹, and also peel n.²Some northern English and Older Scots forms may represent reflexes of Old English pāl pole n.¹ R. Holland ( Cheshire Gloss. (1884) at Pale) gives what appears to be a later example of sense 3b:1884 R. Holland Cheshire Gloss. Pale, Peel, a fortress... Enters into place-names, as the Old Pale and New Pale in Delamere. However, the original sense of the word in these place names is not ‘fortress’ but ‘enclosed tract of land’ (compare sense 3a, and see further J. McN. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire (1981) V. 299).

Etymology: < pale adj. Compare earlier paleness n., pallor n.

Etymology: < French pale spade, shovel (now regional; 1350 in Middle French), shutter in a sluice (16th cent. in Middle French), variant of pelle (see peel n.¹). Compare earlier peel n.¹

Etymology: Short for pale ale n. at pale adj. Compounds 2.

Etymology: < classical Latin palea chaff (see palea n.).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paille, pal, pale, palle and Middle French pale, palle (French pâle ) of a whitish complexion, pallid (c1100 in Old French) < classical Latin pallidum pallid adj. Compare Old Occitan pale (c1300), palle (13th cent. or earlier; Occitan palle).The majority of forms show the reflex of a Middle English long vowel. A small number of forms (pall, palle) show a short vowel; these are probably directly after Middle French palle. The sense development evident in Middle English is not paralleled in French until much later (16th and 17th centuries). It is unclear whether the following early example should be taken as showing the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:c1300 Glosses to Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei (Trin. Dublin 270) in T. Hunt Teaching & Learning Lat. in 13th-cent. Eng. (1991) II. 15 Exanguis : pale. Apparently attested earlier as a surname: Galfridus Pail (1225), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word.

Etymology: Partly < Anglo-Norman and Middle French paler (13th cent. in Old French; < pal pale n.¹), and partly < pale n.¹ Compare classical Latin pālāre , Italian palare (1340), both in sense ‘to support with pales or stakes’. Compare impale v.

Etymology: Apparently < post-classical Latin palliare (see palliate v.), in form perhaps influenced by pale adj. Compare Middle French pallier (1314 in this sense: see palliate v.).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French palir (French pâlir ) to grow pale, (in Middle French also) to make pale (second half of the 12th cent. in Old French in both senses) < pale pale adj., after classical Latin pallēscere to become pale (see pallescent adj.). Compare classical Latin pallēre to be pale (see pallid adj.). Compare pall v.¹

Etymology: < pale n.³ Sc. National Dict. s.v. records the word as still in use in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1965.