Genealogy Projects tagged with Pfeil on the Geni Family Tree

Pyle Family

English: from Middle English pile ‘stake post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike javelin’) hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark or sometimes perhaps a nickname for a tall thin person. Americanized form of Dutch Pijl: metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith from pijl ‘arrow’. This unusual name is of Anglo-Saxon orig...