Etymology

Pannonia

Pan·no·ni·a
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Today it means: A geographic region and former province of the Roman Empire in central-eastern Europe, existing as a single province from c. 9 AD to 107 AD and as multiple related provinces until 433 AD; located in modern western Hungary, western Slovakia, eastern Austria, northern Croatia, northwestern Serbia, northern Slovenia and northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Full definition →

Latin Pannonia ← Proto-Indo-European *pen-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*pen-
  2. LatinPannonia
  3. English todayPannonia

Learned borrowing from Latin Pannonia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“moist; wet; mud; swamp; water”), thus meaning (and ultimately related to) fen /fenland.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*pen- all →

fenfenny

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