payle
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From either Old English pæġel, from Proto-West Germanic *pagil; or from Old French paielle, from Latin patella; or a conflation of both.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
payle (plural payles)
- A pail or bucket; a roughly cylindrical container.
- (rare) A container for storing food.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “paile, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-23.