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多くの現代学者は、パンはプロト・インド・ヨーロッパ語の神''*Péh₂usōn''に由来すると考えており、彼は重要な牧神であったと考えている<ref>Mallory J. P., Adams D. Q., The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, 2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, isbn:978-0-19-929668-2, page:434</ref>（*Péh₂usōn は現代英語の "pasture" と語源を同じくする）<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=*pa-&allowed_in_frame=0 "''*pa-''"]. ''Online Etymology Dictionary''.</ref>。リグ・ヴェーダの神プーシャンはパーンの同類と考えられている。パーンとプーシャンの関係は、1924年、ドイツの学者ヘルマン・コリッツによって初めて明らかにされた<ref>H. Collitz, "Wodan, Hermes und Pushan," ''Festskrift tillägnad Hugo Pipping pȧ hans sextioȧrsdag den 5 November 1924'' 1924, pp 574–587.</ref><ref>R. S. P. Beekes, ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', Brill, 2009, p. 1149.</ref>。パーンという名前は、''Πάων''から短縮されたもので、*peh₂-（番人、見張り）を語源とする<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXrJA_5LKlYC, Indo-European Poetry and Myth, West, M. L., 2007-05-24, OUP Oxford, isbn:978-0-19-928075-9, pages282</ref>。

Many modern scholars consider Pan to be derived from the reconstructed [[Proto-Indo-European religion|Proto-Indo-European god]] ''*Péh₂usōn'', whom they believe to have been an important pastoral deity< (''*Péh₂usōn'' shares an origin with the modern English word "pasture"). The [[Rigveda|Rigvedic]] god [[Pushan]] is believed to be a cognate of Pan. The connection between Pan and Pushan was first identified in 1924 by the German scholar [[Hermann Collitz]]. The familiar form of the name Pan is contracted from earlier ''Πάων'', derived from the root *''peh₂-'' (guard, watch over).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXrJA_5LKlYC|title=Indo-European Poetry and Myth|last=West|first=M. L.|date=2007-05-24|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-928075-9|pages=282|language=en}}</ref> According to Edwin L. Brown, the name ''Pan'' is probably a [[cognate]] with the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] word ὀπάων "companion".<ref>Edwin L. Brown, "The Divine Name 'Pan'", ''Transactions of the American Philological Association'' '''107''' (1977:57–61), notes (p. 59) that the first inscription mentioning Pan is a 6th-century dedication to ΠΑΟΝΙ, a "still uncontracted" form.</ref>