paal
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch paal, from Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, borrowed from Latin pālus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paal (plural pale, diminutive paaltjie)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Cahuilla edit
Noun edit
páal
- mortar (for pounding and grinding)
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch pâel, from Old Dutch pāl, borrowed from Latin pālus.
Noun edit
paal m (plural palen, diminutive paaltje n)
- post, stake, pole, pile
- (sports) goalpost
- Synonym: doelpaal
- (heraldry) pale, perpendicular stripe
- (euphemistic) erect phallus
- an Indonesian measure of distance
Derived terms edit
- als een paal boven water staan
- als puntje bij paaltje komt
- bepalen
- doelpaal
- elektriciteitspaal
- flitspaal
- folterpaal
- geselpaal
- grenspaal
- hectometerpaal
- heipaal
- kilometerpaal
- klimpaal
- krabbaal
- laadpaal
- lantaarnpaal
- meerpaal
- mijlpaal
- paal en perk stellen aan
- paaldans
- paaldorp
- paalfundering
- paalvast
- paalwerk
- paalwoning
- paalworm
- palen
- pispaal
- praatpaal
- schandpaal
- seinpaal
- strandpaal
- telefoonpaal
- telegraafpaal
- voor paal staan
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: paal
- → Caribbean Hindustani: pál
- → Caribbean Javanese: pal
- → Guyanese Creole English: paal
- → Indonesian: pal (“milestone”)
- → Papiamentu: palu
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch pāle, borrowed from Middle French pale, from Latin pala.
Noun edit
paal f (plural palen, diminutive paaltje n)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed French pâle (“pale”).
Adjective edit
paal (comparative paler, superlative paalst)
Inflection edit
Inflection of paal | ||||
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uninflected | paal | |||
inflected | pale | |||
comparative | paler | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | paal | paler | het paalst het paalste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | pale | palere | paalste |
n. sing. | paal | paler | paalste | |
plural | pale | palere | paalste | |
definite | pale | palere | paalste | |
partitive | paals | palers | — |
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
paal
- inflection of palen:
Laven edit
Noun edit
paal
- (Laven and Juk) shoulder
Further reading edit
- Theraphan L-Thongkum, A brief look at thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong province, southern Laos (2002), Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages (edited by Robert Stuart Bauer)
Yucatec Maya edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paal (plural paalal or paaloʼob or paalaloʼob)
- child
- 2008, Briceida Cuevas Cob, “Je’ bix k’iin”, in Tiʼ u billil in nookʼ. Del dobladillo de mi ropa, Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, page 94:
- ka pulik u ok’om óolal jo’oljeak ka jíits’tik tu billil a nook’, / a paalal túune’ tu wenel.
- you throw yesterday's sorrows, drawn from the hem of your clothes, / while your children sleep.
- 2023 February 13, Cecilia Abreu, “Múuch’kabilo’obe’ ku múul meyajo’ob ti’al uti’al u séeb ila’al wa tsaayal ts’unus ti’ paalal”, in Sasil Sánchez Chan, transl., La Jornada Maya[1], archived from the original on 2023-03-19:
- Walkila’ yaan kex 100 u túul paalal táan u ts’a’akalo’ob, ba’ale’ ja’ab man ja’abe’ ku yantal kex 75 uláak’ túumben paalal yéetel le k’oja’anila’.
- Currently, there are about 100 children receiving treatment, but each year there are around 75 more children [diagnosed] with this disease.