Where does “Plan” come from?

Plan (German) comes from French plan, from French plain, from Old French plain, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós, from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- — to fill.

Plan (German): project; plan; technical drawing or diagram

Definitions

  1. project; plan; technical drawing or diagram

Ancestry of “Plan”, step by step

Plan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French plan

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

via Latin planum

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinplanuma plain, level ground
2Latinplanuslevel, flat, even; intelligible, clear; a tramp,...

Words derived from “Plan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pl̥h₁nós →Every word from Proto-Italic plēnos →