Etymology

pandan

pan·dan
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Today it means: A screw pine, screw palms (Pandanus spp.). Full definition →

Malay pandan ← Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan
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The story

  1. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian · derived from*paŋdan
  2. Malay · borrowed frompandan
  3. English todaypandan

Borrowed from Malay pandan, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of hala via Hawaiian.

Words from the same roots

Malaypandan all →

pandanus

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*paŋdan all →

hala

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.