Etymology

impawn

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Today it means: To place an item into pawn. Full definition →

English pawn ← Middle English in- ← Latin in-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishim-
  7. Englishpawn
  8. English todayimpawn

From im- + pawn.

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