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Pfo in the 8th, from porta; hence the absence of the permutation of t to z, which had been accomplished even in the 7th  (it is seen in  pforzih,  pforzich, from  porticus, which was introduced in the 5th or 6th  with the Southern art of building in stone;   portič,  porch). In and, in which the permutation of t to z did not take place until later, we find in the  period the permutated form porze. , porte,   porta, is due to a more recent introduction into.   ,, ‘post, stake,’ from pfoste,  pfosto, , ‘post, beam’;   post, ‘door-post,’  and  post; from  postis, the  of which, postellus ( poteau), is preserved in the  languages. The word was borrowed in pre- times contemporaneously with.   ,, ‘paw, claw’; *pfôte is wanting, though  pôte, , ‘paw,’ is recorded in the 14th ; corresponding to  poot, ‘paw, foot, leg.’ The  form pauta is also indicated by  poe and  paute, ‘paw’ ( also  patte, ‘paw, claw’?). Whether the word is the source of the  is uncertain; allied also to  paw?. It has not yet been ascertained how the prevalent terms dåp, dôpe, ‘paw’ ( tâpe), are related to these cognates.    (1.),, from the  pfrieme. , ‘awl’; corresponding to priem, ‘awl, dagger’; allied to  preón, ‘awl, needle,’  preen, ‘tool for carding wool,’  prjónn, ‘nail, plug.’ With regard to the interchange of n and m romp. ,, , and.

 (2.),, ‘broom’ (plant), based on (1); from  pfrimme,  pfrimma, , ‘broom,’ with the variant brimma, which indicates that the word was borrowed; corresponding to  brem, ‘broom.’ The source of the cognates has not yet been discovered.   ,, ‘stopper, cork’ (first recorded in the last ); its form is based on the  propp,  prop, ‘plug, cork, stopper’; allied to  prop. The cognates cannot be derived from proponere; they are more probably connected with the following group of words.  ,, ‘to plug up, cork,’ from  pfropfen, allied to  pfroffo, *pfropfo, ‘layer of a vine, slip,’  pfropfœre, ‘graft.’  pfroffo, pfropfo, , is derived from  prō̆pâgo,  (for the retention of the  form instead of the oblique case see ), ‘layer, slip,’ whence also  propaggine,  provin. With regard to the period when the word was borrowed see.  ,, ‘benefice, living,’ from pfrüende, pfruonde,  pfruonta, , food, maintenance;  the provisions supplied according to agreement; spiritual office and its revenue’; corresponding to the   prevenda, ,  prove. Borrowed in the 8th from  provenda, a variant of the earlier and more frequent praebenda (see ), which signified ‘cibi ac potus portiones diurnae, quae monachis, canonicis &c. praebentur’; hence provenda,  provende, ‘store of provisions,’  prebenda,  prébende, ‘prebend.’   ,, ‘pool, puddle,’ from the  and  pfuol, ; corresponding to  poel,  pôl,  pool. On account of the numerous West cognates, as well as the diffculties presented by its sound and form, the word cannot have been borrowed at an early period from  pălus ( pălûd-em). The early history of the pôlo- is obscure.   , and, ‘bolster, pillow,’ from  pfülwe, ,  pfuliwî,  ‘feather cushion’; also  pfulwo,  pfulwe, ; borrowed at the beginning of our era, as is indicated by the invariable permutation of p to pf, and the retention of the  v as w, from  pulvînus (pulvînar), ‘pillow, cushion, bolster,’ probably contemporaneously with , , and. pyle, pylwe, pillow,  peuluw, ‘pillow.’ The early period at which the West  form pulwîn was borrowed is attested by the fact that  pulvînus is not preserved in the  languages. <section end="Pfühl" /> <section begin="Pfund" /> ,, from the  pfunt ( -des),  pfunt ( -tes), , ‘pound’; corresponding to , , and  pund,  pound,  pond,  pund. Since the word coincides with the terms in the other,  must be one of the earliest loan-words from ; it passed into  probably at the same period as , about the 2nd ,<section end="Pfund" />