Etymology

pane

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Today it means: An individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc. Full definition →

Middle English pane ← Old French pan ← Latin pannus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*peh₂n-“fabric”
  2. Latin · derived frompannus
  3. Old French · derived frompan
  4. Middle English · inherited frompane
  5. English todaypane

From Middle English pane, pan, from Old French pan, from Latin pannus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Doublet of pagne and pannus.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchpan all →

pawn

Latinpannus all →

panelpannus

Proto-Indo-European*peh₂n- all →

panelvanefane

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