Where does “pen” come from?
pen (Haitian Creole) comes from French pain, from Italian pane, from Spanish PAN, from Old Spanish pan, from Latin pānis, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- — to protect; to shepherd.
pen (Haitian Creole): bread
Ancestry of “pen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | pain | bread; piece of bread; food |
| 2 | Italian | pane | bread; block |
| 3 | Spanish | PAN | — |
| 4 | Old Spanish | pan | — |
| 5 | Latin | pānis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂- | to protect; to shepherd |