"Pan" vs "Pahn"

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gotenx
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Post by gotenx » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:04 pm

Wait a minute... So pan in Japanese means bread? I know it means bread in Spanish, but I didn't think that it was the same for two languages that have similary or common roots. This makes no sense to me!
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Post by El_Diablo » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:09 pm

The Japanese only knew what bread was when the Portugese arrived in the sixteenth century.

They just adopted the Portugese world for this marvellous new food they'd discovered.
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Post by Daimao » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:46 am

Jerseymilk wrote:
Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:No, full Saiyans' names are vegetable-related.
I thought Pan's pun was the aformentioned Pan because it fits with the whole devil family thing (Mr. Satan, Videl).
Explain Gohan who is a halfblood and whose name is food based then.

Though I wouldn't be suprised if it was a double pun, but I've always understaood that it was after the Japanese word for "bread".
Actually, Gohan was a gentle old man who lived alone in the woods and happened upon an unruly little boy with a tail.

And I have always favored the demigod/devil connection for Pan over the bread one (which just seems too obvious, somehow), but agree with Multilang that it is also a rather clever double-pun.
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Post by Dayspring » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:22 am

gotenx wrote:Wait a minute... So pan in Japanese means bread? I know it means bread in Spanish, but I didn't think that it was the same for two languages that have similary or common roots. This makes no sense to me!
Pan is supposed to mean bread in a lot of languages.

EDIT: Variations thereof, as well. French, for example, use "pain" (pronounced "peihn" with a soft N).
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Post by Ash » Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:40 am

Pan is a word the Japanese imported, IIRC.
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Post by Panda » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:01 pm

On the topic of why she is named for bread:

In Japan, there are two types of meals. Bread and Rice. Bread refering to mainly sandwiches and rice to other such meals involving rice. I believe that because the word "Gohan" literally means rice it is a pun on their realtionship for her name to mean bread.

Just my observation. It is pronounced "pahn".
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