pekel

From Middle Dutch peeckel, pekele. The word is originally restricted to Dutch and Low German; compare Middle Low German pēkel. From these two languages are borrowed English pickle and German Pökel. Further origin uncertain. A relation with French piquer, piquant is sometimes supposed.

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pekel m (uncountable)

1. brine (salt water)

• brijn

• pekelen

pekel

1. first-person singular present indicative of pekelen
2. imperative of pekelen

• Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.

pekel m (Cyrillic spelling пекел)

1. (Kajkavian) hell
   • 1936, Miroslav Krleža, Balade Petrice Kerempuha

     Hej haj nek cvate maj,

     nigdar nas v pekel taj nebu nazaj.

• pakao

From Proto-Slavic *pьkъlъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“pitch”). Cognate with Bulgarian пъкъл (pǎkǎl) and Serbo-Croatian па̀као/pàkao, Slovak peklo. Akin to Latin pix (“pitch, tar”).

• IPA^(key): /pəˈkə́w/, /ˈpə̀kəw/
• Tonal orthography: pəkə̏ł, pə̀kəł

pekèl or pèkel m inan (genitive peklà or pèkla, nominative plural [please provide])

1. hell

This noun needs an inflection-table template.