Comparative evidence

2.pend, 2.spend

• Lat. pendō -ere ‘place in the scales’, ‘weigh’, ‘have a weight’, ‘pay’, ‘pay out’, ‘estimate’ (OLD: 1322-1323)

• Lat. pendeō -ēre ‘to be suspended’, ‘hang’ (OLD: 1322)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.