pag-

Also pak-. To fasten. Oldest forms *pag̑-, *pak̑-, becoming *pag-, *pak- in centum languages.

Derivatives include fang, peace, pact, palisade, and travel.

1. Lengthened-grade form *pāk-. fay¹, from Old English fēgan, to fit closely, from Germanic *fōgjan, to join, fit.

2. Nasalized form *pa-n-g-, also *pa-n-k-.

a.

(i) fang, from Old English fang, feng, plunder, booty, from Germanic *fangam, *fangiz;

(ii) vang, from Dutch vangen, to catch, from remade Germanic verb *fangan;

(iii) newfangled, from Middle English *-fangel, taken, akin to Old High German -fangolon, to close, from Germanic *fanglōn, to grasp. (i)-(iii) all derivatives of Germanic *fanhan, to seize;

b. compact¹, impact, impinge, spinto, from Latin pangere, to fasten.

3. Root form *pā̆k-.

a. pace², pax, pay¹, peace; appease, pacific, pacify, from Latin pāx, peace (< “a binding together by treaty or agreement”);

b. pact, patio, from Latin pacīscī, to agree.

4. Suffixed form *pak-slo-.

a. pale¹, palisade, pawl, peel³, pole²; impale, travail, travel, from Latin pālus, stake (fixed in the ground);

b. probably Latin pāla, spade: palette, peel².

5. Lengthened-grade form *pāg-.

a. pagan, peasant, from Latin pāgus, “boundary staked out on the ground,” district, village, country;

b. page¹, pageant, from Latin pāgina, “trellis to which a row of vines is fixed,” hence (by metaphor) column of writing, page;

c. propagate, from Latin prōpāgāre, to propagate (< “to fix before” prō-, before, in front; see per¹);

d. pectin, pegmatite; Areopagus, mastopexy, from Greek pēgnunai, to fasten, coagulate, with derivative pagos (< *pag-o-), mass, hill.

 

[Pokorny pā̆k̑- 787.]

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