Etymograph

English

pane

Pane comes from Old French pan ‘bit’, from Latin pannus ‘cloth’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- ‘fabric’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂n-1‘fabric’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpannus1‘cloth’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400pan1‘bit’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pane1‘a garment or item of clothing’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1895pane1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pane
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1895, Hall Caine: “From a flying cloud came a lightning flash//A pane…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*peh₂n-Wiktionary, English pane‘fabric’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpannusWiktionary, English pane‘cloth’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400panWiktionary, English pane‘bit’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500paneWiktionary, English pane‘a garment or item of clothing’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1895paneWiktionary, English pane. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1895, Hall Caine: “From a flying cloud came a lightning flash//A pane…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- ‘fabric’

vane, fanon, fane, 2 more

through Old French pan ‘bit’

pawn

Today it means

noun An individual sheet of glass or other transparent material in a window, door, etc.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pane”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- / pane

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