pyll

pyll (plural pylls)

1. Obsolete form of peel.
   • 1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the Termes of Venery”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 244:

     His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet, […]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head. And afterwards he Burniſheth the ſame, and then his head is ſaid to be full ſommed.

From an earlier *pëdyll, borrowed from Late Latin padūlem (“swamp”), from a metathesis of Latin palūdem. Compare Romanian pădure, which shows the same change in meaning. Compare also Italian padule, which keeps the Latin sense.^[1] Otherwise cognate or derived from Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”) or Latin folium (“leaf”).

• IPA^(key): [pyɫ]

pyll m (plural pyje, definite pylli, definite plural pyjet)

1. forest, wood

   Synonym: mal (Gheg)

• pylltar (“forester”)
• pyjor

• shul

• “pyll”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

From Proto-Germanic *pullijaz (“small pool, ditch, creek”), diminutive of *pullaz (“pool, stream”),

• IPA^(key): /pyll/, [pyɫ]

pyll m

1. tidal pool, inlet, sheltered bay

Strong a-stem:

• English: pill