Where does “pain” come from?

pain (French) comes from Italian pane, from Spanish PAN, from Old Spanish pan, from Latin pānis, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- — to protect; to shepherd.

pain (French): bread; piece of bread; food

Definitions

  1. bread; piece of bread; food

Ancestry of “pain”, step by step

pain traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian pane

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpanebread; block
2SpanishPANbread
3Old Spanishpanbread
4Latinpānisbread, loaf
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂-to protect; to shepherd

via Middle French pain

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchpainbread
2Old Frenchpainbread

Words derived from “pain”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- →Every word from Latin pānis →Every word from Old Spanish pan →