Where does “pain” come from?

pain (Middle French) comes from Old French pain, from Latin pānis, from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- — to protect; to shepherd.

pain (Middle French): bread

Definitions

  1. bread

Ancestry of “pain”, step by step

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

Words derived from “pain”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- →Every word from Latin pānis →Every word from Old French pain →