pender

to hang, dangle; to be pending, to be undecided

“Mientras todo va bien, no sabemos de Jo que somos capaces. Ha sido menester que pendieras una pata para ...”

Inherited from Old Spanish pender, from Latin pendēre, pendeō, from Proto-Italic *pendēō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”). That it was inherited is shown by medieval diphthongized conjugations such as piende or the past participle pendudo. Subsequently it became an increasingly rare and archaic term.