planche
Old French
noun
Definitions
- plank; board (piece of wood)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin planca (board, slab), phalanga (pole for carrying things, wooden roller, roller pole for moving heavy objects, roller, pole) derived from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (battle order, array, log, etc, body of soldiers, trunk, phalanx, battle array, stem).
Origin
Ancient Greek
φάλαγξ
Gloss
battle order, array, log, etc, body of soldiers, trunk, phalanx, battle array, stem
Kanji
茎
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gangplank English
- planche English
- plank English
- plankboard English
- planker English
- planking English
- plankless English
- planklike English
- plankway English
- plankwise English
- replank English
- *palanga Latin
- palanca Latin
- phalanga Latin
- phalangem Latin
- phalangem, phalanx Latin
- phalanx Latin
- planca Latin
- Planke German
- palánk Hungarian
- falanghina Italian
- phalange French
- planche French
- planchette French
- planchiste French
- планка Russian
- фаланга Russian
- palanca Spanish, Castilian
- plancha Spanish, Castilian
- φάλαγξ Ancient Greek
- φαλάγγιον Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́λᾰγγᾰ, φάλαγξ Ancient Greek
- φᾰ́λᾰγξ Ancient Greek
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- prancha Portuguese
- falanga Polish
- plansza Polish
- plank Middle English
- falang Irish
- planche Danish
- planš Czech
- φάλαγγα Greek (modern)
- փաղանգ Old Armenian
- planko Ido
- plianche Norman
- plianchi Norman
- pleng Albanian
- planke Middle Low German
- llancha Asturian
- plangk Tok Pisin
- pjancura Dalmatian
- planke ONF.
- planque ONF.