Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To stuff. · To furnish with a pad or padding. · To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. · To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. · A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. · A soft, or small, cushion. · A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear whether all senses have a common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.
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