古英語のpath, path, trailから、原ゲルマン語の*pathaz, PIE *pent, to walk, to pass, to treadから、語源的にはfind, ponsと同じ。おそらくさらにPIE *pete, to unfoldから、PIE *ped, footから、語源的にはfoot, pedestalと同じ。
英語の語源
path
path: [OE] Path is a West Germanic word of uncertain ultimate origin. Its cousins German pfad and Dutch pad point back to a prehistoric West Germanic ancestor *patha, but no one is too sure where this came from (one possibility is that it was borrowed somehow from Greek pátos ‘path’). The verb pad ‘tread, walk’ and the -pad of footpad come from the same source. => pad
path (n.)
Old English pat, p?t "path, track," from West Germanic *patha- (cognates: Old Frisian path, Middle Dutch pat, Dutch pad, Old High German pfad, German Pfad "path"), of uncertain origin. The original initial -p- in a Germanic word is an etymological puzzle. Don Ringe ("From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic," Oxford 2006) describes it as "An obvious loan from Iranian ..., clearly borrowed after Grimma??s Law had run its course." Watkins says the word is "probably borrowed (? via Scythian) from Iranian *path-," from PIE root *pent- "to tread, go, pass" (source of Avestan patha "way;" see find (v.)), but this is too much of a stretch for OED and others. In Scotland and Northern England, commonly a steep ascent of a hill or in a road.
例文
1. Stewart was trying to clear a path for the stretcher.
スチュワートは担架の開路に努力している。
2.The path serves as an approach to the boat house.
この小道は舟屋に通じる。
3.I narrowly missed a cyclist who wobbled into my path .
私はもう少しでよろよろと真正面から来た自転車乗りにぶつかりそうになった。
4.She did not notice the man until he moved into her path .
その男が彼女の行く手を遮るまで、彼女は彼に気づいた。
5.He made his way along a well-trodden path towards the shed.