- pailt
- plentiful, pailteas, plenty, Manx palchys, Cornish pals, plenteous, Middle BR. paout, numerous, Breton paot, many, much; the Gaelic is in all likelihood a Pictish word - a root qalt, Indo-European qel, company, collection, as in clann, q.v.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.