Re: [tied] Ban_Pan [cardinal points]

On Fri, 09 May 2003 19:26:59 +0300, S & L <mbusines@...> wrote:

>I would like to know exactly in which N slav languages [beside Polish]
>exists the word PAN with the meaning of leader/sir/etc. ?
>Does anybody has an etymology for this PAN [given in a Polish dictionary for
>example] ?

Czech pán. From Polish presumably Lithuanian ponas, Ukrainian pan.
The Old Czech is hpán, which seems to point to *gUpa:nU, a form
somehow connected to South Slavic z^upan (< *geUpa:nU), of, I'm told,
ultimately Iranian origin.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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