Looking at the ideal of a pedal- something you press down on with your foot; basically, a foot handle. Makes sense with the word pedal- ped- al. A handle for you peds. Handle would then be hand- le, which I can tell just by looking is unrelated, but similar enough for that connection to make sense. I guess. Ped-al would be a handle for your foot, and hand-le would be a pedal for your hand. Though "hand" isn't Latin. There'd be a man-al, or perhaps there is the word manual, but that's not a hand-operated lever so much as the idea of any work for the hands. So, handle. Makes... sense.
It sure makes me a whole lot less passive aggressive why they go out to get "hooficures" in Friendship is Magic rather than, say, "ungulacures."
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