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Pas passer, ‘to omit, pass.’ Numerous words relating to play are derived from the ;   and. — The meaning ‘to lie in wait, watch,’ comes, however, from passen.

 (2.),, ‘to pass muster, suit, be convenient,’ only, corresponding to  passen, which is found even in the 13th ; from  passer. , ‘tolerable.’ ,, ‘to befall, happen, occur to,’ from se passer.  ,, ‘pie, pastry,’ from pastête, pastêde, , from  pastâta, whence  pâtée, ‘paste’ (for poultry), pâté, ‘pie’ (allied to pâte,  pasta, ‘dough’). Akin also to pastie,  pasty ( paste).   ,, ‘pass, mountain road, passport,’ only, from  pas, ‘step, passage, pass.’   ,, from the  pate (bate), , ‘godfather, godmother,’ from  pater, the declension being changed to the  ;  pater spiritualis, ‘sponsor,’ mostly  patrînus, whence  patrino,  parrain ( peet, petekind). also pfętter, ‘sponsor’ and ‘child to be baptised,’ from patrînus, whence ,. The initial pf may be due to its having been borrowed at an early period (similarly meter, ‘godmother,’ is borrowed from  matrîna). In dête,, and dôte, , are chiefly used for  (dêtle, ‘godchild’), in  ,  and. With regard to, , see under.   ,, from the  pûke (bûke), , ‘kettledrum'; a difficult word to explain. The variant baoke seems to be formed by gradation from  pûke. Perhaps the word is bûggn, bauggn, an old onomatopoetic form.   ,, ‘person with puffed cheeks,’ allied to pfûsen (pfnûsen), ‘to snort,’ with  and  initial p.  ', ',, ‘to puff up, blow up,’ only, formed from  poncer, ‘to pounce,’ and ébaucher, ‘to sketch’ (hence the  form ).  ,, from the  pûse, , ‘pause, rest’; borrowed in  from  pause ( and  pausa), whence also  poos and  pause. The - word passed through a  medium to the North. pause, paus.   ,, ‘baboon,’ only, formed from  baviaan ( p for  b, as in ); the latter, like  baboon, is derived from  babouin, ‘baboon’ ( babbuino,  babuinus). The derivation of these cognates from papio, ‘wild dog,’ is not satisfactory; their origin must be sought for somewhere in the South. Late in the 13th the term passed into  and then into ; in Germany the animal seems to have been shown for the first time at the Imperial Diet at Augsburg in the year 1552 A.D.   ,, from the  pëch, bëch ,  pëh, bëh, , ‘pitch’;  pfich (very rare), from  *pfih, unless it is a phonetic transcription of the  or  word. It corresponds to pik,,  pik, pek,  pič, ,  pitch;  bik. The cognates are based on a - word;  picem,  of pix (with regard to the oblique case as the base  ). Compared with from crŭcem, the preservation of the guttural as k and of the vowel quantity in the stem is an important element in the history of the word. pĭcem was naturalized at a much earlier period in than crŭcem, probably in the 7th. further pece,  poix, ‘pitch,’ from  picem ( pix). <section end="Pech" /> <section begin="Pedant" /> ,, ‘pedant,’ only, from  pédant,  pedante, of which the  meaning was ‘instructor’ (the ultimate source is  παιδεύειν). “How the word obtained its modern sense is easily seen.” <section end="Pedant" /> <section begin="Pedell" /> ,, ‘beadle, messenger of a court or council,’ first occurs in early ; from bidellus, pedellus; bedelli universitatum is recorded in 1350. As the usher of a court of justice the word bedellus appears as early as the 13th, and, like its cognates ( bidello,  bedeau, ‘beadle’), is derived from  bital, pital ( bitel), a derivative of  bitten, ‘to invite, cite.’ See. <section end="Pedell" /> <section begin="Pegel" /> ,, ‘water-mark,’ only, from the similar  form;   pegel, ‘gauge-mark, standard,’ and peil, ‘gauge-mark, scale on which the height of the water is marked.’ These words are derived, like  pœgel,  pail, from a  root pag, which also appears in  pfeχte, pfeχe, ‘to gauge.’ <section end="Pegel" />