pole – English noun declension

English noun forms of pole

Noun: pole
Singularpole
Pluralpoles

Sample Sentences

  • For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • There she was, walking around with an IV pole, and we were only told that "Mommy isn't feeling so well, so she has to be connected to a special soda." [2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 26:]
  • Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos
4. Proto-Italic *pākslos
5. Latin pālusbor.
6. Proto-West Germanic *pālu
7. Proto-West Germanic *pāl
8. Old English pāl
9. Middle English pole
10. English poleFrom Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”). See: Middle English Nouns 'pole', Latin Nouns 'pālus', Dutch Nouns 'paal', German Nouns 'Pfahl', Swedish Nouns 'påle', Icelandic Nouns 'páll', Old English Nouns 'fæc'.

Verbs referencing "pole"

Dutch Nouns pool, Spanish Nouns palo, Finnish Nouns paalu, German Nouns Pohl.