Where does “pay” come from?
pay (Cebuano) comes from English Pi, from Ancient Greek πῖ, from Ancient Greek πεῖ, from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.
pay (Cebuano): the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical...
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- the name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical...
Ancestry of “pay”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Pi | The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | πῖ | Alternative form of πεῖ |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | πεῖ | pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the... |
| 4 | Proto-Semitic | pay- | the mouth |