pion
Afrikaans
noun
Definitions
- (chess) pawn; least valuable piece in chess
- a pawn; a person who has no control over their lot, usually manipulated by others to some end
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish pion (pawn) derived from French pion (pawn) derived from Middle French pion derived from Old French peon (pawn) derived from Latin pedō.
Origin
Latin
pedō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- peon English
- pedō Latin
- pedōnem, pedō Latin
- a-pion Dutch, Flemish
- b-pion Dutch, Flemish
- c-pion Dutch, Flemish
- d-pion Dutch, Flemish
- e-pion Dutch, Flemish
- f-pion Dutch, Flemish
- g-pion Dutch, Flemish
- h-pion Dutch, Flemish
- pion Dutch, Flemish
- vrijpion Dutch, Flemish
- morpion French
- pion French
- pionique French
- pionner French
- peón Spanish, Castilian
- peon Old French
- peonier Old French
- pion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πιόνι Greek (modern)
- pion Indonesian
- piono Ido
- piyon Turkish
- pion Middle French
- פּיאָן Yiddish
- poun xno