Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *panningazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_panningaz
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nounmasculinea-stema coin, pennyOf unclear origin. Many regard the forms without the medial *-t- or *-d- as the older ones because the Slavic and Lithuanian loans (Proto-Slavic *pěnędzь) do not show the reflex of a medial obstruent, which makes it difficult to connect with *pandan- (‘pledge’) (Old High German phant) or their possible etymon, Latin pondus (‘weight’). The second part of the word is probably *-ingaz. The first part is possibly a borrowing of one of these Latin words:Vennemann suggests another possibility, following from his (controversial) Punic superstrate theory: that *paning may derive from Carthaginian traders' jargon use of Punic /pani/, “face”, to mean "coin", as almost all Carthaginian coins depicted the face of Tanit (a goddess who was herself known as the "face of Baal"), and even the second-most common motif was the face of Melqart; Vennemann further speculates that the variants *panning and *panding preserved the bimoric nature of the Punic word.