Anvil Definition
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Origin of Anvil
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Middle English anfilt, anvelt, from late Old English anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti, from Proto-Germanic *anafeltaz (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *feltaz (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialect filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pultō, pulsō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek [script?] (pállein) ‘to toss, brandish’), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English anfilt from Old English pel-5 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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