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Meaning of surname Paegel or Pagel

Meaning of surname Paegel or Pagel

Posted: 12 Mar 2005 4:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Paegel
Hi, so far I heard about the following explanantions:
1.
"Pägel (Hbg.) = Pegel (ndd.,ndld., ) = Wasserstandsmesser"
Thanks to Peter Externest (Source: "Namenslexikon, Hans Bahlow")
2.
"1. Paul --> Pauls(en) --> niederdeutsch Pagel
2. Paul --> Pawel --> Pagels
3. 16 Jh.: Paul Doberenze genannt Pagels"
Thanks to Bernhard Rödel (Source: "Große Buch der Familiennamen")

Anybody any other ideas?
Regards Nils

Re: Meaning of surname Paegel or Pagel

Posted: 12 Mar 2005 7:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
Just found this one:
"pægel or pægl
In Denmark, a premetric unit of liquid capacity, = ¼ pot, about 0.242 liters (about 0.51 U.S. liquid pints). Today the term usually means 250 milliliters, often of beer."
Source (http://www.sizes.com/units/paegel.htm)

and this one:
"PAIL, a bucket, a vessel for carrying water, milk or other liquids, made of wood or metal or other material, varying in size, and usually of a circular shape and somewhat wider at the top than the bottom. The word is of somewhat obscure origin. The present form points to the 0. Eng. paegel, but the sense, that of a small wine-measure, a gill, is difficult to connect with the present one. The earlier forms of the word in Mid. Eng. spell the word payle, paille, and this rather points to a connection with 0. Fr. paelle, payelle, a small pan or flat dish, from Lat. patella, diminutive of patera, dish. The sense here also presents difficulties, pail in English being always a deep vessel."
Source (http://15.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PA/PAIL.htm)


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