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pall

See also: Pall, Páll, and pal'l'

English edit

WOTD – 23 May 2019

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English pal, palle, from Old English pæl, pæll, from Old French paile and Latin pallium (“cloak; covering”) (and thus a doublet of pallium),[1][2] probably from palla (“piece of cloth worn as apparel”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, skin; cloth”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Noun edit

pall (plural palls)

  1. Senses relating to cloth.
    1. (archaic, poetic) Fine cloth, especially purple cloth used for robes.
    2. A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse.
    3. (Christianity) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist.
    4. (Christianity, obsolete) A cloth used for various purposes on the altar in a church, such as a corporal (“cloth on which elements of the Eucharist are placed”) or frontal (“drapery covering the front of an altar”).
  2. Senses relating to clothing.
    1. (archaic) An outer garment; a cloak, mantle, or robe.
    3. (figuratively) Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion.
      The early election results cast a pall over what was supposed to be a celebration.
      A pall came over the crowd when the fourth goal was scored.
      • 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
        The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
      • 1887, W. S. Gilbert, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II:
        Night has spread her pall once more,
        And the prisoner still is free:
        Open is his dungeon door,
        Useless now his dungeon key!
      • 2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 42:53 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?‎[2], archived from the original on 19 August 2022:
        […] and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.
    4. (Christianity) Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”).
      • 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section II. The Seventh Century.”, in The Church-history of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, untill the Year M.DC.XLVIII, London: Printed for Iohn Williams, →OCLC; The Church History of Britain, […] In Three Volumes, 3rd edition, volume I, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, […], 1842, →OCLC, section 38 (What a Pall is), page 107:
        By the way, a pall is a pontifical vestment, considerable for the matter, making, and mysteries thereof. […] But, to speak plainly, the mystery of mysteries in this pall was, that the archbishops' receiving it showed therein their dependence on Rome; and a mote, in this manner ceremoniously taken, was an acknowledgement of their subjection. And as it owned Rome's power, so in after-ages it increased their profit. For, though now such palls were freely given to archbishops, […] yet in after-ages the archbishop of Canterbury's pall was sold for five thousand florins: […]
      • 1840, [Elizabeth Stone], “Needlework of the Dark Ages”, in Countess of Wilton [i.e., Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton], editor, The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages; including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 66:
        Or it might be a magnificent pall, in the days in which this garment had lost its primitive character, that taxed the skill and the patience of the fair needlewoman. It was about the year a.d. 601 that Pope Gregory [I] sent two archbishop's palls into England; the one for London, which see was afterwards removed to Canterbury, and the other to York.
    5. (heraldry) A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y, sometimes charged with crosses.
      Synonyms: cross-pall, pairle
      The flag of South Africa has a green pall
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Related terms edit
Translations edit
pallium — see pallium

Etymology 2 edit

From the noun pall (“cloth”).[3]

Verb edit

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

  1. (transitive) To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall.

Etymology 3 edit

Formed by aphesis from appal, appall (“(obsolete) to make pale; to weaken; to become weak; to lose flavour or become stale”),[4] possibly under the influence of the figurative meaning of the unrelated noun pall.

Alternatively, the word may be derived from Middle English pallen (“to diminish, impair, weaken; to become faint; to lose spirit”), formed by aphesis from apallen (“to become or make faint or tired; to become indifferent; to fade or cause to fade away; to dim, weaken; to become stale; to be frightened; to frighten; to become pale”),[5][2] from Old French apalir (“to become or cause to become pale”), possibly from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid; pale with fright, frightened; mouldy, musty”),[6] from palleō (“to be pale, turn pale; to be anxious or fearful; to fade or change colour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel-, *pelH- (“grey; pale”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives).

Verb edit

pall (third-person singular simple present palls, present participle palling, simple past and past participle palled)

  1. (transitive) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken.
    • 1706 August 30, Francis Atterbury, A Sermon Preach’d in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; at the Funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet, August 30. 1706, London: Printed and sold by H. Hills, […], published 1707, →OCLC, page 4:
      […] Reaſon and Reflection, which by repreſenting perpetually to the mind of Man the meanneſs of all ſenſual Gratifications, do, in great meaſure, blunt the edge of his keeneſt Deſires, and pall all his Enjoyments.
  2. (intransitive) To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.
    The liquor palls.
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Etymology 4 edit

From the verb pall (“to make vapid”).[7]

Noun edit

pall (plural palls)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A feeling of nausea caused by disgust or overindulgence.
    • 1699, [Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury], An Inquiry Concerning Virtue: In Two Discourses, […], London: Printed for A. Bell [...] E. Castle [...] and S. Buckley, →OCLC; republished as “Treatise IV. Viz. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit. […]”, in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes, volume II, [London: Printed by John Darby], 1711, →OCLC, book II, part II, section II, pages 149–150:
      Tho the Impatience of abſtaining be greater; the Pleaſure of Indulgence is really leſs. The Palls or Nauseatings which continually intervene, are of the worſt and moſt hateful kind of Senſation. Hardly is there any thing taſted which is wholly free from this ill reliſh of a ſurfeited Senſe and ruin'd Appetite.

References edit

  1. ^ “pal, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 January 2019; “pall, n.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2005.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “pall”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “pall, v.3”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2005.
  4. ^ “pall, v.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2005.
  5. ^ “pallen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. ^ “apallen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 January 2019.
  7. ^ “† pall, n.2”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2005.

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Albanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Albanian *palei-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to speak with a loud voice”). Cognate to Gothic 𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌽 (spillōn, “to proclaim”).[1]

Verb edit

pall (aorist palla, participle pallë/pallur)

  1. to cry, hee-haw

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References edit

  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 365

Cypriot Arabic edit

Root
p-l-l
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic بَلَّ (balla).

Verb edit

pall I (present pipúll) (transitive)

  1. to moist

References edit

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 164

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

From either German Ball or Middle Low German bal.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pall (genitive palli, partitive palli)

  1. (sports) ball

Declension edit

Declension of pall (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative pall pallid
accusative nom.
gen. palli
genitive pallide
partitive palli palle
pallisid
illative palli
pallisse 		pallidesse
pallesse
inessive pallis pallides
palles
elative pallist pallidest
pallest
allative pallile pallidele
pallele
adessive pallil pallidel
pallel
ablative pallilt pallidelt
pallelt
translative palliks pallideks
palleks
terminative pallini pallideni
essive pallina pallidena
abessive pallita pallideta
comitative palliga pallidega

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Livonian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Finnic *palvodak. Cognates include Finnish palvoa and Estonian paluma.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

pall

  1. ask

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Finnic *paladak.

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Verb edit

pall

  1. burn

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Old Norse pallr.

Noun edit

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural paller, definite plural pallene)

  1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
  2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse pallr.

Noun edit

pall m (definite singular pallen, indefinite plural pallar, definite plural pallane)

  1. a pallet (portable platform on which goods are stacked for transport)
  2. a podium (especially for winners of a sporting event)

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Swedish edit

 
pall[4] = pawl (2)

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From English (cargo) pallet.

Noun edit

pall c

  1. a stool ((small) chair without armrests or back)
  2. (sports) a podium (for prize ceremonies)
    Synonym: prispall
  3. a pallet (portable platform for transport or storage)
    Synonym: lastpall
    Hypernym: lastbärare
    Hyponyms: EU-pall, halvpall, helpall, SJ-pall
  4. a pawl (a pin in a ratchet gear)
Declension edit
Declension of pall 1-4
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pall pallen pallar pallarna
Genitive palls pallens pallars pallarnas
Declension of pall 5
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pall pallet pall pallen
Genitive palls pallets palls pallens
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Etymology 2 edit

Compare with the cant knoparmoj Swedish paller (“apple”). Possibly related to Romani phab and continental Romani phabaj.

Noun edit

pall

  1. (criminal cant) an apple
    Synonyms: äpple, paller

See also edit

  • smulpall (“apple pie”)
  • palla (“steal apples”) (pick apples from someone else's tree without permission)

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Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Welsh pall, from Proto-Brythonic *pall, from Latin palla (“cloak, mantle”).

Noun edit

pall m (plural pallon)

  1. tent
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Etymology 2 edit

Backformation from pallu (“to fail”).

Noun edit

pall m or f (uncountable)

  1. failure, fault, defect
    Synonyms: aball, methiant, diffyg, coll, bai
  2. refusal, denial

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pall ball mhall phall
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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