palletyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[pallet 词源字典]
pallet: see pale
[pallet etymology, pallet origin, 英语词源]
pallet (n.1)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"mattress," late 14c., from Anglo-French paillete "straw, bundle of straw," Old French paillet "chaff, bundle of straw," from paille "straw" (12c.), from Latin palea "chaff," perhaps cognate with Sanskrit palavah, Old Church Slavonic pleva, Russian peleva, Lithuanian pelus.
pallet (n.2)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"flat wooden blade" used as a tool by potters, etc., early 15c., from Middle French palette, diminutive of pale "spade, shovel" (see palette). Meaning "large portable tray" used with a forklift for moving loads is from 1921.