Etymology

Pangaea

pan·gae·a
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Today it means: A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana. Full definition →

German Pangäa ← Ancient Greek γαῖα (gaîa) ← Proto-Hellenic *gaya
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ph₂énts?
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pánts
  4. Ancient Greekπᾶς (pâs)
  5. Ancient Greekπαν- (pan-)
  6. Proto-Hellenic*gaya
  7. Ancient Greekγαῖα (gaîa)
  8. GermanPangäa
  9. English todayPangaea

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915. Analyzable as pan- + Gaea.

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