Etymology

palest

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English pale ← Middle English pale ← Old French pale
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The story

  1. Latinpallidus
  2. Old Frenchpale
  3. Middle Englishpale
  4. Englishpale
  5. English todaypalest

From pale + -est.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.