pannus.
cloth, garment; charioteer's colored shirt; rags;
Meaning & usage
cloth
rag
garment
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”) (from Proto-Hellenic *pān-) and maybe also πήνη (pḗnē, “woof thread”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane (from Proto-Germanic *fanô). Because of the variation in vowel and consonant length between these terms, De Vaan 2008 denies the possibility of reconstructing any common Proto-Indo-European etymon for them and says they could be loanwords from an unknown source language. In contrast, Kroonen 2013 reconstructs their source as Proto-Indo-European *peh₂, *ph₂ + *-n-, explaining Latin pann- as a development from *pān- by the "littera rule", a phenomenon with unclear conditions whose applicability is disputed. See Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”).
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