Word Origin Summary

Pekel is attested in Middle Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• picl'ye

  Norman · borrowed from

• pickle

  French · borrowed from

• piccalilly

  Dutch · derived from

• picil

  Irish · borrowed from

• pikel

  Middle English · borrowed from

• pikkill

  Scots · borrowed from

• pikōļ

  Marshallese · derived from

• piccalilli

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root