peil

Borrowed from Dutch peil (“level”).

peil

1. (Japan, hydrology, in compounds) water level

   Tokyo Peil (TP); Yedogawa Peil (YP); Osaka Peil (OP)

• Pile, plie, pile, IEPL, Lipe, Piel, plié

• IPA^(key): /pɛi̯l/

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• Hyphenation: peil
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯l
• Homophone: pijl

From Middle Dutch peyl, a Hollandic variant of peghel, from Old Dutch pegil, from Proto-West Germanic *pagil. Doublet of pegel (“icicle”).

peil n (plural peilen, diminutive peiltje n)

1. (literal or figurative) level

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peil

1. inflection of peilen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• leip, liep

• IPA^(key): /paɪl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯l

peil

1. singular imperative of peilen

From Proto-Brythonic *pel, from Latin pila.

• IPA^(key): /pʲɛlʲ/

peil f (genitive singular peile, nominative plural peileanna)

1. football (game, physical ball)
2. Gaelic football

• caid
• (Gaelic football): peil Ghaelach