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pannage

Meaningto feed

Common meaning: right to let pigs feed in woodland

Journey through time

  1. Latinpascere‘to feed’source
  2. Late Latinmeaning shiftsto feed → payment for feeding pigspasnaticum‘payment for feeding pigs’source
  3. Old Frenchpasnage‘pig-feeding payment’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftspig-feeding payment → right to let pigs feed in woodlandpannage‘right to let pigs feed in woodland’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin pascere ‘to feed’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), entry PANNAGE, p. 369 · dictionary scan

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