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pan

Pronunciation: /pan/

“pan” is a Welsh word. Its meaning in English:

conjunction

  1. when, while

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷani, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís (interrogative pronoun). Cognate with Cornish pan (“when”, conjunction) Breton pa (“when”, conjunction), and Scottish Gaelic cuin (“when?”). Compare also Latin quando (“when?”), Proto-Germanic *hwan (“when?”).

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