Where does “pavé” come from?

pavé (French) comes from French paver, from Old French paver, from Vulgar Latin pavare, from Latin pavio, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- — few, little; smallness.

pavé (French): cobblestone; cobblestone street; parallelepiped

Definitions

  1. cobblestone; cobblestone street; parallelepiped

Ancestry of “pavé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpaverto cobble, to pave with cobblestones or something...
2Old Frenchpaverto pave, to cover
3Vulgar Latinpavareto beat down, to smash
4LatinpavioI beat, strike; I ram; I tread down
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂w-few, little; smallness

Words derived from “pavé”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂w- →Every word from Latin pavio →Every word from Vulgar Latin pavare →