"One can suppose that OE pađ originated from a vanished word *pathan “to strike, beat” as pýtan “to push” was present in Old English. The epithet beaten is used to words way, road often. Beside that, Herodotus wrote:

“…the Amazons are called by the Scythians Oiorpata, which name means in the Hellenic tongue ‘slayers of men’, for ‘man’ they call oior, and pata means ‘to slay’…”19.

The word pata- “to strike” has Turkic origin therefore the vanished Old English word *pathan was borrowed from Turkic (just Bulgarian) language."

Nem ilyen csuvasos mellékízzel, de hasonlóra gondoltam.