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English word pen comes from Proto-Indo-European *pent-, and later Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (Feather. Wing.)

*pent- (Proto-Indo-European)

*péth₂r̥ (Proto-Indo-European)

Feather. Wing.

*petnā (Proto-Italic)

Feather. Wing.

pinna (Latin)

penne (Old French)

penne (Anglo-Norman)

pen (English)

(colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.. (figurative) A writer, or his style.. (now, rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.. (poetic) A wing.. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.. A light pen.. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to [...]

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