Where does “panda” come from?
Panda comes from French panda, from Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ, of uncertain ultimate origin.
panda (English): The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail
Definitions
- The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), a small raccoon-like animal of northeast Asia with reddish fur and a long, ringed tail
Ancestry of “panda”, step by step
panda traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hindi पंडा
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hindi | पंडा | a brahmin superintending as a hereditary function a place of pilgrimage |
| 2 | Sanskrit | पण्डित | learned, wise, shrewd, clever, skilful in,... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | -इत | forms adjectives from nouns: -ed, having, furnished with |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | -tás | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |