pele

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]

pele

1. vocative singular of pel

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Portuguese pele. Cognate with Kabuverdianu peli.

pele

1. skin

pele

1. volcano

A loanword from Proto-Balto-Slavic *peljā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“gray”). Compare Latvian pele, Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛlɛ]
• Hyphenation: pe‧le
• Rhymes: -lɛ

pele (plural pelék)

1. dormouse
2. (vulgar, slang) erect penis

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “805”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 805

• pele in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Proto-Baltic *peliā̃ (Lithuanian pelė, Old Prussian pelē), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“grey”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

pele f (5th declension)

1. mouse (esp. Mus musculus, domestic mouse)

   mājas pele ― house (= domestic) mouse

   peles ala ― mouse hole (lit. cave)

   peļu slazds, lamatas ― mousetrap

   peļu inde ― mouse poison

   peles pīkst ― mice squeak, beep

2. (computing, also datorpele) computer mouse (movable input device used to move a pointer on a graphic display)

   datorpele ― computer mouse

• datorpele
• pundurpele

• pelēks

• žurka f

pelè

1. instrumental singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

pẽle

1. vocative singular of pelė̃ (“mouse”)

• peele, pile, pale

From Old French pele, pale, from Latin pāla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːl(ə)/, /ˈpɛl(ə)/

pele (plural peles)

1. (Late Middle English) shovel, peel

• English: peel

• “pē̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• Hyphenation: pe‧le

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

pele f (plural peles)

1. skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
2. skin (outer protective layer of fruit)
3. fur

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

pele

1. inflection of pelar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pele m

1. law, rule
2. prison

• empele (“terrible, awful”)

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “pele”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈpe.le]
• Hyphenation: pe‧le

pele

1. darling, sweetheart

pele

1. (stative) to be dear

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

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   Synonym: per