Where does “plan” come from?

Plan comes from French plan, from Latin planta, from Ancient Greek πλάνος, from Latin planum, from Ancient Greek πλάνος, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- or pleh₂-.

plan (English): A drawing showing technical details of a...

Definitions

  1. A drawing showing technical details of a...

Ancestry of “plan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchplanplan; map; plane
2Frenchplainplane
3Old Frenchplainfull; plain; flat
4Latinplēnusfull; filled; complete
5Proto-Italicplēnosfull
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpl̥h₁nósfull
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpleh₁-to fill

Words derived from “plan

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁-