• pelew, pelewe, pelowe, pile, pilew, pilewe, pilow, pilowe, pilue, pule, pyle, pylow, pylwe

From Old English pylu, pyle, from Proto-West Germanic *pulwī, from Latin pulvīnus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpilwə/, /ˈpilɔu̯/, /ˈpiluː/, /ˈpɛl-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpil(ə)/ (from Middle English pyle)
• IPA^(key): /ˈpiliu̯/, /ˈpɛl-/, /ˈpyl-/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)

pilwe (plural pilwes)

1. A soft stuffed bag; a cushion or pillow.
   • 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales:

     To visite this Damyan goth May
     And subtilly this lettre doun she threste
     Vnder his pilwe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (rare) A pad; a piece of cushioning.
3. (rare) A supporting piece of metal.

• *pilwebere
  • English: pillowber
    • → Irish: piliúr, peiliúr
  • Scots: pillaebeir

• English: pillow
  • → Māori: pera
• Middle Scots: pillow
  • Scots: pillae

• “pilwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 September 2019.