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Message:: [QUOTE="pk_boomer, post: 1105223, member: 23933"]"Origin: before 900;  Middle English  peni,  Old English  penig, pænig, pen ( n ) ing, pending,  cognate with Old Frisian  penning, panning,  Old Saxon,  Dutch  penning,  Old High German  pfenning, phantinc, phenting  ( German  Pfennig ), Old Norse  penningr  (perhaps < OE); < West Germanic  or Germanic  *pandingaz,  probably equivalent to *pand-  <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pawn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pawn" rel="nofollow">pawn</a>   + *-ingaz  <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ing" rel="nofollow">-ing</a>" <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/penny" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/penny" rel="nofollow">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/penny</a>[/QUOTE]