pyle

1. plural of pyl

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪlɛ]

pyle

1. vocative singular of pyl

From Old French pile, from Latin pīla.

• pile

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːl(ə)/

pyle (plural pyles)

1. pillar; pile, heap, stack
2. castle, tower, stronghold

• English: pile
• Yola: pile

• “pīl(e, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

pyle

1. alternative form of pilwe

• pile, pylu

From Proto-West Germanic *pulwī, from Latin pulvīnus

pyle m

1. pillow

• Middle English: pilwe, pelew, pelewe, pelowe, pile, pilew, pilewe, pilow, pilowe, pilue, pule, pyle, pylow, pylwe
  • English: pillow
    • → Māori: pera
  • Middle Scots: pillow
    • Scots: pillae

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “pyle”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɘ.lɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɘlɛ
• Syllabification: py‧le
• Homophone: pylę

pyle

1. locative/vocative singular of pył

From Middle English payle.

• IPA^(key): /pai̯l/

pyle (plural pylès)

1. pail

• mulk-pylès

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 63

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