Etymology

palet

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English pale ← Middle English pale ← Old French pale
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  1. Latinpalleō
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Latinpallidus
  4. Old Frenchpale
  5. Middle Englishpale
  6. Englishpale
  7. English todaypalet

From pale + -et.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.