different between pell vs pelt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-. Distantly related to fell and film.

Noun

pell (plural pells)

1. A fur or hide.
2. A lined cloak or its lining.
3. A roll of parchment; a record kept on parchment.
   • 1835, Frederick Devon (editor and translator), Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, Containing Payments Made out of His Majesty?s Revenue in the 44th Year of King Edward III.: A.D. 1370, page xi,

     The clerk of the pell (whose office is in the Lord Treasurer?s gift) keepeth the Pells in parchment, called Pelles Receptæ, wherein every teller?s bill, with his name on it, is to be entred; and under every such bill when it is entred, recordatur to be written in open court, for a controlment to charge the teller with so much money as in the said bill is set downe.

     He also anciently kept another pell, called Pellis Exitus, wherein every dayes issuing of any the moneys paid into the receipt, was to be entered, and by whom and by what warrant, privy seale, or bill, it was paid.

4. (Sussex) A body of water somewhere between a pond and a lake in size.
5. An upright post, often padded and covered in hide, used to practice strikes with bladed weapons such as swords or glaives.

Derived terms

• clerk of the pells

Related terms

• pelt
• fell
• pelisse
• pellagra
• pellage
• pellicle
• peltry

Etymology 2

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Verb

pell (third-person singular simple present pells, present participle pelling, simple past and past participle pelled)

1. To pelt; to knock about.

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Breton

Etymology

Cognate with Welsh pell (“far”).

Adverb

pell

1. far

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin pellis, pellem, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pe?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

pell f (plural pells)

1. (anatomy) skin
2. pelt

Derived terms

• pellofa

Further reading

• “pell” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

pell

1. singular imperative of pellen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pellen

Welsh

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?el-.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pe??/, /p??/

Adjective

pell (feminine singular pell, plural pell, equative pelled, comparative pellach, superlative pellaf)

1. far, distant

Derived terms

• rheolydd pell

Mutation

References

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.Norwegian pels, Norwegian belte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
3. (humorous) Human skin.

   • A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

1. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.

   They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

2. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.

   The children pelted apples at us.

3. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.

   It's pelting down out there!

4. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
5. (intransitive) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

   The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To throw out words.

Translations

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
   • 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)

     Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pelt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

pelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of pellen