pay
Old Frenchto give money in exchange for goods or services
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From Old French paier, ultimately from Latin pācāre (to pacify, appease) — paying a debt originally meant 'making peace' with a creditor. Produces pay, payment, payable, payoff, and repay. The etymological link between payment and peace reveals how settling debts was seen as restoring social harmony.
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pay
to give money for something; wages received for work
payment
The act of paying; a sum of money paid for goods or services
payoff
A reward or result of an action; a bribe; final debt repayment
repay
To pay back money owed; to reward or recompense someone
payable
Due to be paid (adj.); debts owed by a business (n.)