The poolside is the paved area around the edge of a pool. Sit poolside, a poolside bar, from the poolside.
It works as noun and modifier, so a poolside bar is one beside the water. No running is the standing rule, since a wet poolside is where most injuries at a pool happen rather than in the water.
1nounpoolsideThe paved area around the edge of a pool.
“We spent the afternoon reading on sunbeds at the poolside.”
poolside is an area.
Proto-Indo-European
*bōlos — bog, marsh
Proto-Germanic
*pōlaz — pool, pond
Proto-West Germanic
pōl
Old English
pōl — pool
Middle English
pool
English
pool
English, today
poolside
From pool + -side. pool comes from Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), stq Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (“swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically пруд пруди́ (< пруд).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA