Etymograph

English

repalm

From re- + palm.

Formed from re- + palm

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ‘flat’

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Proto-Italic *palamā

Latin palma ‘palm-tree, palm-branch, palm of the hand’

Old English palm ‘palm-tree, palm-branch’

Middle English palme ‘palm (tree)’

English palm

Today it means

verb To palm again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “repalm”. 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.

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