The story
- Old French · derived fromapalir“to grow pale, make pale”
- Middle English · inherited fromapallen
- English todayappall
From Middle English apallen, from Old French apalir (“to grow pale, make pale”); a (Latin ad) + palir (“to grow pale, to make pale”), pâle (“pale”), from pallere. See pale (adj.) and compare with pall.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchapalir all →
pall
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.