English

Pellian

From Pell + -ian.

Formed from Pell + -ian

Proto-Indo-European *pel-ni-

Proto-Italic *pelnis ‘skin’

Latin pellis ‘animal skin, pelt’

English Pell

Today it means

adj Of or relating to the 17th-century mathematician John Pell, or to Pell's equation.

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