Pickel.
pickaxe, icepick
Meaning & usage
pickaxe, icepick
Where this word comes from
From Old High German *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“pickaxe, sharp point”); + -el.
pimple, pustule
Where this word comes from
A sub-form of Pocke (“smallpox”).
pickle (liquid used to preserve food; brine)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle Low German pickel, a sub-form of Pökel (“brine for curing”). The ultimate origin is uncertain: perhaps related to the verb picken, from Old Saxon *pikkōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to strike”), with influence or intermediary borrowing from French piquer (“to sting, prick”).
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