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Pfa which is similar in sound and is assumed by the derivative ; the idea associated with in historic times originated, of course, in parochia, παροικία. —   ,, ‘clergyman, minister,’ pfarrœre,  pfarrâri, a  derivative of pfarra. Note that the word is not based on parochus ( parroco), ‘priest.’ There also exists a later variant,,  pfarre, ; hence the derivative  ( and ).   ,, from the  pfâwe,  pfâwo, , ‘peacock’; the  form, with its permutated initial sound and its preservation of the v as w (see , ), points to a very early loan-word from  pâvo (whence also  paon,  pavone). With regard to the form of the word, it may be remarked that while other loan-words from are based on the oblique case (see ), in this instance the  word is classified under the n- declension, to which  pâvo ( pâvôn-em) also belongs. The peacock ( and ) may have been known in Germany about the 7th or 6th, or even earlier. paauw, pâwa and peá,  peacock, which were borrowed contemporaneously from the same source;  pavŭ is also allied.   ,, from the  pfëben,  *pfëban, *pfëbano, , ‘pumpkin,’ formed from  pepon ( πέπων), ‘pumpkin.’  pfëdem, ‘pumpkin,’ and  pfëdemo, are peculiar; besides these,  pëpano, bëbano, and  bëben also occur without permutation. .   ,, from the  pfëffer,  pfëffar, , ‘pepper’; borrowed, as the unvarying permutation indicates, prior to the  period from  piper (whence  poivre,  pepe), which assumption is supported by  peper,  pipor,  pepper,  piparr (note in the non- languages  pĭprŭ). The early adoption of the word in  is confirmed by history. In 410 A.D. Alaric, before Rome, granted a truce, for which the city was obliged to supply, among other things, 3000 lbs. of pepper. —   ,, ‘peppermint,’ is connected with , or rather its variant munza. See.   ,, from the  pfîfe,  pfîfa, , ‘pipe’; borrowed prior to the  period from   pîpa (allied to  pîpare, ‘to pip, chirp’); hence also  pijp,  pîpe, ,  pipe,  pípa; so too the  cognates,  piva,  pipe. —  , ‘to pipe,’ from pfîfen, from  pipare, from which we should have expected an    *pfîfôn.  ,, from the  and  pfîl, , ‘arrow, dart’; corresponding to  pîl,  pijl,  pîl,  pile,  píla, ‘arrow.’ Borrowed at an early period from  pîlum, , ‘heavy javelin,’ with a change of gender and meaning. The word for arrow,  arhwazna,  ǫr,  earh (etymologically the same as  arcus, ‘bow’), disappeared on the introduction of the word. <section end="Pfeil" /> <section begin="Pfeiler" /> ,, from the  pfîlœre,  pfîlâri, , ‘pillar’; borrowed prior to the  period from  pîlâre, pîlarius ( pîla), ‘pillar,’ whence also  pijlaar. piliere, pilier,  pillar (to which  and  pile, formed from  pîla, is allied). <section end="Pfeiler" /> <section begin="Pfennig" /> ,, ‘a coin, one-tenth of a penny,’ from pfęnnic, pfęnninc ( -ges),  pfęnning, , ‘denarius, a silver coin, a twelfth of a shilling.’ Its form and origin are difficult to determine. It may be derived from, and thus its name may be due to its shape (perhaps ‘pan-shaped’ or ‘made in the pan’). A variant with nd, from the connection of the word with, is seen in pfęnting and  pęnding (variants of the more usual pęnning, pęnnig, whence  penny). With regard to the diffusion of the word, further  pending,  penning,  penningr; in  a presumptive form *panniggs or *pandiggs is wanting. The suffix -ing frequently occurs in names of coins in the earlier periods;, ,  cheisuring, ‘imperial gold coin,’  farthing, from  feórþing, ‘quadrans.’ From the  cognates are derived  pěnęgŭ, pěnędžĭ, ‘coin, money.’ <section end="Pfennig" /> <section begin="Pferch" /> ,, ‘fold, pen,’ from pfęrrich,  pfęrrih, pfarrih (hh), , ‘fence, enclosure,  for sheep’; corresponding to  pearroc, , ‘enclosure, park,’  perk, ‘enclosed space.’ If the words with initial p in  and initial pf in  are of foreign origin, the term on which they are based must have been introduced, on account of the correspondence <section end="Pferch" />