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Poc from peuple; povel, pövel, bovel are found in  from the 13th  (  people in its  sense).  ,, ‘to knock, beat,’ from puchen, bochen;   boken,  pogchen, ‘to boast,’  to poke. The  is not borrowed from the ;   bochen. It is derived from a root puk, buk.  ,, ‘pock,’ properly a word, unknown in this form to  and ;  the   pok, for which we should have expected  in , and in fact the  preserve this form. Allied to pocc,  pock. The cognates seem to be based on a root puh, ‘to swell,’ which appears also in  pohha, poca,  poke and pocket.   ,, ‘drinking cup,’ first occurs in from  boccale ( bocal), ‘beaker, mug,’ which with its  cognates is usually traced back to  βαυκάλἰον, ‘vessel’;.   ,, ‘pickle, brine,’ only,  a  word;  the   pekel,  pickle (see also ). Origin obscure; perhaps the cognates are connected with to pick.   ,, ‘penny-royal,’ from the  and  polei, pulei, ; based on  pûlêjum, ‘penny-royal’ (whence  poleggio,  pouliot).   , and  ‘cushion, bolster,’ from the   polster, bolster,  bolstar. ; corresp. to bolster,  and  bolster, and its   bólstr. The cognates are connected with the root belg, ‘to swell,’ to which  also belongs, hence the  sense is ‘swelling’ ( bolstra-, from bolhstro-). With the corresponding root bṛh, ‘to be great.’  upabarhaṇa, ‘bolster,’ is connected;  also  pobalso, balsinis, ‘pillow,’  blazina (from *bolzina), ‘pillow.’  ,, ‘to make a row, rattle,’ from late buldern (a variant of bollern?); allied to the   baldrast; probably an imitation of sound akin to  boltatĭ, ‘to vibrate,’  bildeti, ‘to rattle.’ ,, ‘slowly,’ only, borrowed from the   pomalu.  ,, ‘orange,’ adopted in the 15th from the   pomarancia, a compound of  pomo, ‘apple,’ and arancia, ‘orange’; the latter word and  orange are usually derived  from  nâranǵ,  nârenġ, and further from  nâranga, ‘orange.’   ,, ‘pomp, splendour,’ first occurs in early , from pompe,  (- pompa). <section end="Pomp" /> <section begin="Popanz" /> ,, ‘bugbear,’ only, from  bobak, ‘frightful object.’ <section end="Popanz" /> <section begin="Port" /> ,, ‘port, harbour,’ from the  porte, , port,  and ; borrowed at a late period from  and  portus ( porto,  port), ‘port.’ <section end="Port" /> <section begin="Porzellan" /> ,, ‘porcelain,’ only. “This ware, at first obtained from China and Japan, was introduced into Europe by the Italians; porcellana in  denoted a sea-mussel, concha veneris; since this bore a great resemblance to porcelain, the name was easily transferred from the one to the other.” <section end="Porzellan" /> <section begin="Posaune" /> ,, ‘trumpet, trombone’; a loan-word, as is indicated by the accent; it is met even during the period as busûne, basûne, bosûne. On account of the remarkable variant busîne the word has been derived from buisine, which, like  búccina, ‘trumpet,’ is based on  bûcī̆na. further bazuin, ‘trumpet.’ <section end="Posaune" /> <section begin="Posse" /> ,, ‘drollery, fun, farce,’ first occurs in early ; corresponding to poets, pots. gibôsi, ‘tricks, nugae’, cannot be allied to it. In earlier  also signified the decoration, the accessories in works of art; hence the word has been connected with  ouvrage à bosse, ‘work in relief’ (  bozzo, ‘rough stone, stone blocks,’ bozzetto, ‘slight sketch’; also  bosh?). <section end="Posse" /> <section begin="Post" /> ,, ‘post, post-office,’ first occurs in early , formed from posta ( poste), which is based on  posita, ‘standing-place’ (for horses?). Similarly , ‘post, station, item, entry,’ is derived from  posto, ‘place, post,’ which again comes from  positus, ‘standing-place.’ <section end="Post" /> <section begin="Pott" /> ,, ‘pot,’ a word;   pot,  pot, and the   pottr. From the cognates are derived those of  pot and  pote. The word is said to be of  origin;   pot,  poit. is not akin. — <section end="Pott" /> <section begin="Pottasche" /> ,, to  potash; hence  potasse,  potassa. <section end="Pottasche" /> <section begin="Pracht" /> ,, ‘state, pomp, magnificence,’ from and  praht, braht,  and , ‘noise, shouting.’ The evolution <section end="Pracht" />