English

paid

/peɪd/
Not free of charge; costing money.

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    Origin

    From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.

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    • partEnglishpay “To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishpayen
        • derivedOld Frenchpaiier “pay”
      • derivedOld Frenchpeier
        • derivedLatinpico “to cover with pitch”
    • partEnglish-ed “Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any pa…”
      • inheritedMiddle English-ed
        • inheritedOld English-ed
        • derivedLatincōnfūsus
        • inheritedOld English-od
      • inheritedMiddle English-ede
        • inheritedOld English-ode
    • inheritedMiddle Englishpaid
      • derivedMiddle Englishpaien

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