Where does “paņ” come from?

paņ (Livonian) comes from Middle Low German spân, from English Spander, from English Spike, from Middle Dutch spīker, from Old Dutch spīkāri, from Proto-West Germanic spīkārī, from Latin spicarium, from Latin -ārium.

paņ (Livonian): bucket, pail

Definitions

  1. bucket, pail

Ancestry of “paņ”, step by step

paņ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Low German spân

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanspân
2EnglishSpanderThe ship of characters Spike and Xander Harris from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3EnglishSpikeA sort of very large nail
4Middle Dutchspīker
5Old Dutchspīkāri
6Proto-West Germanicspīkārīgranary
7Latinspicariumgranary
8Latin-āriumused primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end
9Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
10Proto-Italic*-om
11Proto-Indo-European*-oHom

via Middle Low German panne

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanpanne
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom
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