Pfeil

Borrowed from German Pfeil.

Pfeil (plural Pfeils)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pfeil is the 12285^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2531 individuals. Pfeil is most common among White (96.21%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pfeil”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• flipe

From Middle High German pfīl, from Old High German pfīl, from Proto-West Germanic *pīl, from Latin pīlum (“javelin, throwing spear”). Cognate with German Low German Piel, Dutch pijl (“arrow, dart”), English pile (“column of wood, steel or concrete”).

• IPA^(key): /pfaɪ̯l/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /faɪ̯l/ (northern Germany, central Germany)

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯l

Pfeil m (strong, genitive Pfeiles or Pfeils, plural Pfeile)

1. arrow (missile)
2. arrow (sign)
3. (computing) mouse cursor (informally even when not in the form of an arrow)

   Synonyms: Cursor, Mauszeiger

• Bogen m

• “Pfeil” in Duden online
• “Pfeil” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Pfeil”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891