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vel

Pronunciation: /vɛl/

“vel” is a Dutch word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a skin, a hide
  2. a fur, a pelt
  3. a sheet (e.g. of paper; incorrectly used for a page)
  4. a membrane, e.g. forming on boiling milk
  5. a rag, a shred

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vel, from Old Dutch *fel, from Proto-West Germanic *fell, from Proto-Germanic *fellą, from Proto-Indo-European *pello-, *pelno-, whence Latin pellis, Greek πέλλα; cognate with German Fell.

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