A good pediatrician doesn't cost a pittance. But the two P-D/T (dental) words are related from way back, from the infancy of the speaking species.
PED(IATRICIAN) Pa’[O]ODT Pey-Ayin-Vav-Tet
pa-OOD(T)___________פעוט_________[P-DT -> PD]
ROOTS: The PED of PEDIATRICIAN, PEDANTIC, PEDAGOGUE and PEDERAST is from Greek paidos (child).
In Talmudic Hebrew פעוט P[A]OADT is a child or minor; פעוט Pa’[O]ODT means small or young.
בת BahT is a daughter (Genesis 29:10) or a generic term for children (Isaiah 62:11). See “FETUS.”
Reversing P-T echos טף DTaPH (children - Genesis 47:12) or "little ones" [B-Y and Harkavy].
BRANCHES: From טף DTaPH, Arabic uses tifl for "child." "Daughter" in Indonesian is puteri; in Shoshoni (American Indian) it’s pot,
in Tahitian it's poti'i; and in Swahili bi(n)ti. Putra means son in Sanskrit; RAJPUT is a member of a ruling caste of northern India.
With the hushed ח Het/[K]H, we hear only P-T in פחות Pa[K]HOOT (less, minor, inferior) .
A small amount in Sinhala (Sri Lanka) is pod-dai. [Mark Feffer]. Other PT terms of littleness include PET, PETIT(E), PETTICOAT, PETTIFOY,
PETTY and PITTANCE. PETTY, of little importance, has no Indo-European "root."
Middle English peti (small, minor) is only traceable to Old French petit. Similarly, PITTANCE, a small amount, only goes back to the Old French
word for the meagre food allowance in a monestary.
Like-sounding bilabial-dental words for smallness are at “BIT.”
See "PAUCITY."
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