pent-

pent-
To tread, go.
Derivatives include find, pontiff, and sputnik.
1. find, from Old English findan, to find, from Germanic *finthan, to come upon, discover.
2. Suffixed o-grade form *pont-i-.
a. pons, pontifex, pontiff, pontine, pontoon, punt1; transpontine, from Latin pōns (stem pont-), bridge (earliest meaning, “way, passage,” preserved in the priestly title pontifex, “he who prepares the way” -fex, maker; see dhē-);
b. sputnik, from Russian sputnik, fellow traveler, sputnik, from put', path, way.
3. Zero-grade form *pn̥t-. peripatetic, from Greek patein, to tread, walk.
4. Suffixed zero-grade form *pn̥t-ə-.
a. path, from Old English pæth, path;
b. pad2; footpad, from Middle Dutch pad, way, path. Both a and b from Germanic *patha-, way, path, probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-.
 
[Pokorny pent- 808.]

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