pau-

I. pau-¹

Few, little. Oldest form *peə₂u-, colored to *paə₂u-.

Derivatives include few, pauper, foal, pony, and pullet.

I. Adjectival form *pau-, few, little.

1. few, from Old English fēawe, few, from Germanic *fawaz.

2. Suffixed form *pau-ko-. paucity, poco, from Latin paucus, little, few.

3. Suffixed form *pau-ro- in metathetical form *par-wo-. paraffin, parvovirus, from Latin parvus, little, small, neuter parvum, becoming parum, little, rarely.

4. Compound *pau-paros, producing little, poor (*par-os, producing; see perə-¹). pauper, poor, poverty; depauperate, impoverish, from Latin pauper, poor.

II. Suffixed zero-grade form *pu-lo-, young of an animal.

1. foal, from Old English fola, young horse, colt, from Germanic *fulōn-.

2. filly, from Old Norse fylja, young female horse, from Germanic derivative *fuljō.

III. Basic form *pau- and zero-grade form *pū̆-, boy, child.

1. Suffixed form *pu-ero-. puerile, puerperal, from Latin puer, child.

2. Extended form *put-.

a. poltroon, pony, pool², poulard, poulter's measure, poultry, pullet, Punchinello; catchpole, from Latin pullus (< *putslo-), young of an animal, chicken;

b. pusillanimous, from Latin pusillus (< *putslo-lo-), old diminutive of pullus;

c. further suffixed form *put-o-. putto, from Latin putus, boy.

3. Suffixed form *paw-id-. pedo-²; encyclopedia, orthopedics, from Greek pais (stem paid-), child (> paideia, education).

 

[Pokorny pōu- 842.]

  II. pau-²

To cut, strike, stamp. Oldest form *peə₂u-, colored to *paə₂u-.

1. Suffixed (participial) zero-grade form *pu-to-, cut, struck.

a. putamen, putative; account, amputate, compute, count¹, depute, dispute, impute, repute, from Latin putāre, to prune, clean, settle an account, think over, reflect;

b. possibly Latin puteus, well: pit¹.

2. Basic form *pau-.

a. Suffixed form *pau-yo. pave, pavé, from Latin pavīre, to beat;

b. suffixed (stative) form *paw-ē-. pavid, from Latin pavēre, to fear (< “to be struck”);

c. perhaps Greek paiein, to beat: anapest.

 

[Pokorny 3. pēu- 827.]

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