Etymograph

English

palus

Palus comes from Latin pālus ‘stake, post’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to attach, fix’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-1‘to attach, fix’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-slos1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pākslos1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpālus2‘stake, post’
  5. Englishtodaypalus2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin palus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English palus

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-Wiktionary, Latin palus‘to attach, fix’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂ǵ-slosWiktionary, Latin palusreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*pākslosWiktionary, Latin palusreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpālusWiktionary, English palus‘stake, post’
  5. EnglishtodaypalusWiktionary, English palus

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- ‘to attach, fix’

page, propaganda, compact, peasant, pagan, propagate, pectin, impinge, pagination, pala, impactor, 28 more

through Latin pālus ‘stake, post’

travel, pole, peel, pale, travail, palisade, 21 more

Another origin of palus

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pelH-‘pale, gray’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*palūtsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpalūs‘marsh, swamp’
  4. Englishtodaypalus

Today it means

noun A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “palus”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin palus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- / palus

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