Where does “pan” come from?

pan (Galician) comes from Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- — to protect; to shepherd.

pan (Galician): bread; a piece of bread; grain, corn, cereal

Definitions

  1. bread; a piece of bread; grain, corn, cereal

Ancestry of “pan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Occitanpan—
2Latinpānisbread, loaf
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpeh₂-to protect; to shepherd

Words derived from “pan”

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