pel-2. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	pel-²
DEFINITION:	To fold. 1. Extended o-grade form polt-. a. fold¹, from Old English fealdan,* faldan, to fold; b. faltboat, from Old High German faldan, to fold; c. furbelow, from Italian falda, fold, flap, pleat; d. (i) faldstool, from Medieval Latin compound faldistolium, folding chair; (ii) fauteuil, from Old French faldestoel, faldstool. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic compound faldistlaz, “folding stool” (stlaz, stool; see st-); e. –fold, from Old English -feald, -fald, -fold, from Germanic combining form -falthaz, -faldaz. a–e all from Germanic falthan, faldan. 2. Combining form -plo-. a. decuple, multiple, octuple, quadruple, quintuple, septuple, sextuple, triple, from Latin -plus,* -fold (as in triplus, threefold); b. –ploid; triploblastic, from Greek -plos, -ploos, -fold (as in haploos, haplous, single, and triploos, triple). (Pokorny 3a. pel- 802.)


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