पाव پاؤ ♣ Eng. foot, pedal

पाव پاؤ ♣ Eng. foot, pedal

[pāɔ], m. num. a fourth part.

[◀MIA: Pk. pāya- m. ‘quarter-verse’; Pa. pāda- m. ‘quarter of a verse, coin (worth 1/4 kahāpaṇa)’ ◀OIA pā́da- m. ‘foot, a fourth part’ <pád- ‘foot, step, a fourth part, a quarter’ ◀PIE *pē̆d-, pō̆d- ‘foot’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙▶Eng. foot, fetter, fetch ] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. pedal, pedestrian, peon, pioneer ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0222; (Turner, 1966) 8056, p.437; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 452; (MW, 1899) 0583, 0617; (Pokorny, 1959) 0790; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.077