† ˈpathment Sc. Obs.
Also 4 payth-, 4–5 paith-, 5 pathe-, 6 paithe-, paithtment.
[app. an alteration of pavement (pament, payment) after path, due to similarity of sound and association of meaning: cf. path v. 4.]
= pavement. (In quot. c 1470, the ground.)
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 719 Þan done I fel one þe paythment. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 3704 To stampe on halowyd pathement. c 1470 Henry Wallace viii. 936 The paithment was cled in tendyr greyn. 1538 Aberdeen Regr. XVII. (Jam.), The paithtment of the kirk. 1644 in W. Ross Pastoral Wk. in Covenant. Times ii. 27 Sums of money..for pathment-stones. |