pad

pad
\ \ [16] English has two words pad, both of them borrowed from Low German or Dutch. The ancestral meaning of padcushion’ seems to be ‘sole of the foot’, although that sense did not emerge in English until the 18th century.
\ \ Flemish pad and Low German pad both denote ‘sole’, as does the presumably related Lithuanian pādas. Padtread, walk’ comes from Low German padden, a descendant of the same Germanic source as produced English path. It was originally a slang term used by 16th- and 17th-century highwayman, muggers, and the like, and its corresponding noun pad survives in footpad [17]. Paddlewalk in shallow water’ [16] comes from a Low German or Dutch derivative (the other paddle, ‘oar, bat’ [15], is of unknown origin).
\ \ Cf.PADDLE, PATH

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