Where does “PAN” come from?

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

PAN (Spanish): bread

Definitions

  1. bread

Ancestry of “PAN”, step by step

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

Words derived from “PAN

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peh₂-