PALE=WRESTLING pale (adj.) Look up pale at Dictionary early 14c., from Old French paile pale, light-colored (12c., Modern French pâle), from Latin pallidus pale, pallid, wan, colorless, from pallere be pale, grow pale, from PIE *pel- (2) pale (see pallor). Pale-face, supposed North American Indian word for European, is attested from 1822. pale (n.) Look up pale at Dictionary early 13c. (c.1200 in Anglo-Latin), stake, pole, stake for vines, from Old French pal and directly from Latin palus stake, prop, wooden post, related to pangere to fix or fasten (see pact). From late 14c. as fence of pointed stakes; figurative sense of limit, boundary, restriction is from c.1400. Barely surviving in beyond the pale and similar phrases. Meaning the part of Ireland under English rule is from 1540s, via sense of territory held by power of a nation or people (mid-15c.). pale (v.) Look up pale at Dictionary late 14c., become pale; appear pale (also, in Middle English, to make pale), from Old French paleir (12c.) or from pale (adj.). Related: Paled; paling. πάλη (palē) — 1 Occurrence Ephesians 6:12 N-NFS GRK: ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρὸς αἷμα NAS: For our struggle is not against flesh KJV: For we wrestle not against INT: to us the wrestling against blood
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