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pau-1 Few, little. Oldest form *peh2u‑, colored to *pah2u‑. Derivatives include few, pauper, foal, pony, and pullet.- Adjectival form *pau‑, few, little.
- few, from Old English fēawe, few, from Germanic *fawaz.
- Suffixed form *pau-ko‑. paucity, poco, from Latin paucus, little, few.
- Suffixed form *pau-ro‑ in metathetical form *par-wo‑. paraffin, parvorder, parvovirus, from Latin parvus, little, small, neuter parvum, becoming parum, little, rarely.
- Compound *pau-paros, producing little, poor (*par-os, producing; see perə-1). pauper, poor, poverty; depauperate, impoverish, from Latin pauper, poor.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *pu-lo‑, young of an animal.
- foal, from Old English fola, young horse, colt, from Germanic *fulōn‑.
- filly, from Old Norse fylja, young female horse, from Germanic derivative *fuljō.
- Basic form *pau‑ and zero-grade form *pū̆‑, boy, child.
- Suffixed form *pu-ero‑. puerile, puerperal, from Latin puer, child.
- Extended form *put‑.
- poltroon, pony, pool2, poulard, poulter's measure, poultry, pullet, Punchinello; catchpole, from Latin pullus (< *putslo‑), young of an animal, chicken;
- pusillanimous, from Latin pusillus (< *putslo-lo‑), old diminutive of pullus;
- further suffixed form *put-o‑. putto, from Latin putus, boy.
- Suffixed form *paw-id‑. pedo-2; encyclopedia, orthopedics, from Greek pais (stem paid‑), child (> paideia, education).
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