| Language | Reflex(es) | Gloss | Grammar | Sources |
|---|
| English |
| Old English | plega | play, movement, battle, applause | n.masc | W7 ASD LRC |
| Old English | pleg(i)an, plægan, plagian | to play, cohabit (with) | vb.wk | W7 ASD LRC |
| Old English | pliht | danger | n.masc | W7 ASD LRC |
| Old English | plihtan | to endanger, compromise | vb.wk | W7 ASD LRC |
| Middle English | play | play | n | W7 LRC |
| Middle English | pledge | pledge | n | W7 LRC |
| Middle English | plighten | to plight | vb | W7 LRC |
| Middle English | replevin | replevin | n | W7 LRC |
| English | frankpledge | mutual responsibility for good conduct | n | AHD W7 LRC |
| English | play | act of briskly using/handling weapon/instrument | n | AHD W7 LRC |
| English | pledge | promise of chattel as security for debt/other obligation | n | AHD W7 LRC |
| English | plight | to engage, put/give in pledge | vb.trans | AHD W7 LRC |
| English | replevin | provisional recovery of goods/chattels said to be wrongfully taken | n | AHD W7 LRC |
| West Germanic |
| Old Frisian | plicht | danger | n | ASD LRC |
| Middle Dutch | pleyen | to play | vb | W7 LRC |
| Old High German | pflegan | to take care of | vb | W7 LRC |
| Old High German | pfligida | danger | n | ASD LRC |
| German | pflegen | to take care of | vb | LRC |
| German | Pflicht | obligation, responsibility | n.fem | LRC |
| Italic |
| Old French | plevir | to pledge | vb | W7 LRC |
| Old French | replevir | to give security | vb | W7 LRC |
| Anglo-French | replevine | pledge | n.fem | W7 LRC |
| Anglo-French | replevir | to give security | vb | W7 LRC |
| Middle French | plege | pledge | n.fem | W7 LRC |