Etymology: < Anglo-Norman paun, poun, poune pawn, pedestrian, walker (compare Old French poon , paon , pon (late 12th cent.), chiefly north-eastern variants of peon foot-soldier, pedestrian (c1180), pawn (c1220); compare Middle French peon , Middle French, French pion foot-soldier, footman, pawn) < post-classical Latin pedon- , pedo a person with flat feet (in undated glossaries), a foot-soldier (12th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin ped- , pēs foot (see -ped comb. form) + -ō (see -oon suffix). Compare Old Occitan pezo, pezon foot-soldier, pawn (12th cent.; Occitan peon, pion pawn), Catalan peó footsoldier (13th cent.), pawn (first half of the 15th cent.; now also in sense ‘labourer’), Spanish peón foot-soldier (1062 as pedon), pawn (1283), labourer (mid 13th cent.), Portuguese peão foot-soldier (1130), Italian pedone foot-soldier (13th cent.), pedona pawn (c1336).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman poun, pown, poon, Anglo-Norman and Middle French paon (12th cent. in Old French as poun , poon ; French paon ) < classical Latin pāvōn- , pāvō peacock (also as pavus ), of unknown origin. Compare Old Occitan pao , paon , pau (12th cent.; Occitan pavon , pau ), Catalan paó (13th cent.), Spanish pavo (mid 13th cent. as pavon , paon ), Portuguese pavão (13th cent. as paão ), Italian pavone (13th cent. as paone ). Compare earlier pea n.¹, po n.¹ N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pɑun) /paʊn/.

Etymology: < Middle French pan (1214 in Old French; in Middle French also pant (in an isolated attestation from Metz in north-eastern France); French †pan (1611 in Cotgrave as pand)) pledge, security, surety, apparently related to Old Frisian pand, Middle Dutch pant (Dutch pand), Old Saxon pand (Middle Low German pant, pan), Old High German pfant (Middle High German phant, pfant, German Pfand) all in senses ‘pledge, pawn, security, surety’; further etymology uncertain. In forms with final dental (chiefly Scots) probably either after or directly < Middle Low German or Dutch.French pan pledge, is identical in form with pan cloth, piece, portion, pane (see pane n.²). It has been suggested that these are the same word, and the source of the West Germanic forms (hence reflecting a very early semantic development in French). In this case Middle French pant , and also the related verbal form Old French (Flanders) pander (13th–14th centuries), would be explained as the result of the influence of forms in Germanic languages (as also pand in Cotgrave). However, the origin of the final dental in the Germanic forms would then remain unexplained. Alternatively, a West Germanic base has been seen as the source of all of the Germanic forms and of French pan pledge (and sometimes also as the etymon of penny n.); it may ultimately have been borrowed from classical Latin pondus (see pound n.¹), but if so it is difficult to explain the vowel quality. A suggested derivation < an unattested variant with nasal infix of classical Latin pactum (after pangere : see pact n.) is unlikely. Compare post-classical Latin pandum (c1145 in a Scottish source, in sense 2a):c1145 Royal Charter: David I in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 8 Prohibeo ne aliquis capiat pandum super terram Sancte Crucis. In sense 2d after Akan awowa.

Etymology: < early modern Dutch pand cloister, perambulatory (in Middle Dutch as pant ; now only regional in this sense; Dutch pand building, premises), probably a specific sense of pand pawn n.³

Etymology: Apparently back-formation < pannage n. (compare forms s.v.).Perhaps an error by Spelman (compare quot. 1664).

Etymology: < pawn n.³Compare (all in sense ‘to take or seize (goods or a person), to distrain’ rather than ‘to give or deposit as pledge’) Old French (Flanders) pander (see pawn n.³), Old French, Middle French (north-eastern) paner , panir (13th cent.), Middle Dutch panden (Dutch panden ), Middle Low German panden , penden , Old High German pfantōn (Middle High German phanten , pfenden , German pfänden ). In sense 5 apparently by confusion with palm v. 2.