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If the meaning “to precede” is accepted (EDA I 196), the Akkadian verb can rather plausibly be identified with PS *p-l-l ‘to cut off, to divide, to separate’.

Derived words: itaplustu ‘looking’ (and an object) (AHw. 403, CDA 136); mupallisu ‘interferer’ (CAD M₂ 209, AHw. 674); muppalsu ‘observer, favorably inclined’ (CAD M₂ 211, AHw. 674); muttaplisu ‘inspector, controller’ (CAD M₂ 308); naplaštu ‘blinkers’ (CAD N₁ 305, AHw. 739); naplasu ‘look, glance’ (CAD N₁ 306, AHw. 739); pilsu ‘view, vista’ (occ. in personal names only) (CAD P 378).
No definitive etymology can be suggested.

Derived words: mupalliš bīti ‘burglar’ (CAD M₂ 209); pālišu ‘drilling stone, stoneborer’ (SAD I); pallāšu ‘stoneborer; piercer’ (SAD I); pallišu ‘burglar, housebreaker’ (CAD P 68, AHw. 816); palšu ‘breach’ (CAD P 70, AHw. 816); palšu ‘perforated’ (CAD P 70, AHw. 816); pilšu ‘breach, tunnel, opening’ (CAD P 378, AHw. 863); pulluštu ‘strainer’ (CAD P 505); pullušu ‘perforated’ (CAD P 505, AHw. 878).

The immediate cognates to the Akkadian verb are restricted to Hbr. pB. plš (pi.) ‘to penetrate, to perforate’ and Syr. plaš ‘perfodit, perfregit (murum, domum)’. Especially the Syriac verb is semantically so close to the Akkadian one that the possibility of an early Akkadian influence is not to be ruled out.

An Ugaritic word, corresponding to alphabetic pld ‘cloth or garment’.

No etymology can be suggested.

No definitive etymology can be suggested. Probably (with AHw 816) a derivation from palāšu ‘to pierce’, which could refer to an ulcer as “perforated” or to a “piercing” pain of a wound.

Var. paltiggu. The Akk. word comes close to Old Indic paryaṅka- (palyaṅka-, pallaṅka-) “throne dais; seat” (EWAia II 98), eventually borrowed into modern Western languages: Portuguese palanquim, French palanquin, English palanquin, etc. (KEWA II 226).

No etymology can be suggested.