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Etymology · Proto-Semitic

*pay-

2 English words descend from Proto-Semitic *pay-, most common first.

piThe sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
peThe seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).