Genesis 22:22: a son of Nachor, Av-Ram's brother.
The etymology is obscure, according to Gesenius, who does not even choose to speculate on it. Given that virtually every scholar since has relied on Gesenius, it is therefore not surprising that none of them choose to speculate either, and I am going to go no further than to suggest that the lack of Yehudit etymology is plain and obviously a consequence of Pildash not being a Yehudit name - he came from Chaldea and lived in Padan-Aram, so the root is going to be Hittite, or Sumerian, or Sag-Giga, or another of the languages of that region. Four-letter roots are anyway extremely rare in Biblical Yehudit, and there is no known Yehudit root Ladash for the Pey to be prefixed to, nor any root Palad for the Sheen to suffix.
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