Word Origin Summary

Plan is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. plānusLatinborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• plan

  Turkish · derived from

• pla(n) pye

  Plateau Haitian Creole · derived from

• aeroplanum

  Latin · derived from

• plana

  Scottish Gaelic · borrowed from

• plan

  Romanian · borrowed from

• plan

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• پلان

  Ottoman Turkish · borrowed from

• plean

  Irish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root