peall

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pʲaul̪ˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /pʲɑːl̪ˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /pʲal̪ˠ/

From Old Irish pell (“animal's skin or fur”), borrowed from Latin pellis.

peall m (genitive singular pill, nominative plural pill)

1. pelt, skin, hide

   Synonyms: craiceann, seithe

2. rug, blanket; pallet
3. piece of coarse cloth

• peallach
• peallóg

From Old Irish pell, fell (“horse”), specialized use of pell (“pelt”).

peall m (genitive singular pill or peill, nominative plural pill)

1. (literary) horse

   Synonym: marc

• púca peill

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “peall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 pell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 pell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “peall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /pʰjaul̪ˠ/

From Old Irish pell (“animal's skin or fur”), borrowed from Latin pellis.

peall m (genitive singular pill, plural peallan or pillean)

1. hairy skin, hide
2. couch, pallet
3. veil, covering, coverlet
4. bunch of matted hair
5. mat
6. (Lewis) tarpaulin

peall (past pheall, future peallaidh, verbal noun pealladh, past participle peallte)

1. cover
2. pull asunder, pluck, tear in pieces
3. clot, mat (as wool)
4. tease

From Old Irish pell, fell (“horse”), specialized use of pell (“pelt”).

peall m (genitive singular pill, plural peallan or pillean)

1. horse

• peallag f (“shaggy hide or skin; little bunch of hair; clout; little coach or pallet; little covering; trollop, ill-dressed or ragged woman; little mat or rug; hassock; umbrella; coarse harness, primitive or ill-kept harness; cart harness; inferior wool; mat of straw; bass; sort of under pack-saddle; coarse blanket”)
• pillean m (“pack-saddle; cloth put under a pannel, cushion, pad; hassock”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “peall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 pell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 pell”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language