Etymology

pavais

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Middle French pavais ← Old French pavaix
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frompavaix
  2. Middle French · borrowed frompavais
  3. English todaypavais

From Middle French pavais, Old French pavaix (see modern French pavois); see pavis for more.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.