Word Origin Summary

*pel is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• puls

  Middle English · derived from

• pulser

  French · derived from

• pulse

  English · inherited from

• Velsen-Noord

  Dutch · inherited from

• Velsen-Zuid

  Dutch · inherited from

• puls

  Dutch · borrowed 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