The story
- Latin · derived frompellis“animal skin, pelt”
- Scottish Gaelic · borrowed frompillean“little rug”
- English todaypillion
From Scottish Gaelic pillean (“little rug”), from Latin pellis (“animal skin, pelt”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpellis all →
pellpeltpellagrapelisse
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.