pawn
- pawn
- English has two words pawn. The older,
‘chess piece’ [14], means etymologically ‘footsoldier’.
It comes via Anglo-Norman poun from
medieval Latin pedō ‘infantryman’, a derivative
of Latin pēs ‘foot’ (to which English foot is
related). The foot-soldier being the lowest of the
low in the army, the term came to be applied to
the ‘chess piece of lowest rank’. (English gets
pioneer from a derivative of paon, the Old
French version of poun.)
Pawn ‘pledge as security for a loan’ [15]
comes via Old French pan ‘security, pledge’
371 peer
from a prehistoric West Germanic *panda
(source of modern German pfand ‘pledge,
security, pawn’). Penny may go back to the same
source.
=> FOOT, PEDAL, PIONEER; PENNY
The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins.
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pawn — Ⅰ. pawn [1] ► NOUN 1) a chess piece of the smallest size and value. 2) a person used by others for their own purposes. ORIGIN Old French poun, from Latin pedo foot soldier . Ⅱ. pawn [2] … English terms dictionary
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