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English word pain comes from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂ (Payment. Punishment, vengeance.)
*kʷoynéh₂ (Proto-Indo-European)
Payment. Punishment, vengeance.
*kʷoinā́ (Proto-Hellenic)
ποινή (Ancient Greek)
poena (Latin)
(figurative) execution. Penalty. Punishment.
peine (Anglo-Norman)
pain (English)
(countable) An annoying person or thing.. (countable, and, uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering [...]