Etymology

peil

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Today it means: water level Full definition →

Dutch peil
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  1. Dutch · borrowed frompeil“level”
  2. English todaypeil

Borrowed from Dutch peil (“level”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.