English
pandan
Pandan comes from Malay pandan ‘any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines’, and goes back to Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN.
- Proto-Austronesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*paŋudaNreconstructed
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*paŋdan‘any of the screw pines’reconstructed
- Proto-Malayicprehistoric (reconstructed)*pandanreconstructed
- Malaymodernpandan‘any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Austronesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*paŋudaNreconstructed
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesianprehistoric (reconstructed)*paŋdan‘any of the screw pines’reconstructed
- Proto-Malayicprehistoric (reconstructed)*pandanreconstructed
- Malaymodernpandan‘any plant of the genus Pandanus of screw pines’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023same form
Earliest quotation: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface: “Like vanilla, but better,” she explains. “It’s fragrant and…”
Linked words
through Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan ‘any of the screw pines’
Today it means
noun A screw pine, screw palms (Pandanus spp.).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Austronesian *paŋudaN / pandan