flan 
(flăn, flän)
(flăn, flän)n.
1. A custard that is baked in a caramel-lined mold and served chilled with the caramel side up. Also called crème caramel.
2. A tart with a filling of custard, fruit, or cheese.
3. A metal disk to be stamped as a coin; a blank.
[French, from Old French flaon, from Late Latin fladō, fladōn-, flat cake, of Germanic origin; see plat- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- Indo-European root: angh-
- Indo-European root: ansu-
- Indo-European root: ant-
- Indo-European root: anə-
- Indo-European root: apo-
- Indo-European root: ar-
- Indo-European root: arg-
- Indo-European root: as-
- Indo-European root: at-
- Indo-European root: au-
- Indo-European root: aug-
- Indo-European root: aus-
- Indo-European root: awi-
- Indo-European root: awo-
- Indo-European root: ayer-
- Indo-European root: ayes-
- Indo-European root: bak-
- Indo-European root: bel-
- Indo-European root: bha-bhā-
- Indo-European root: bhad-
- Indo-European root: bhag-
- Indo-European root: bhardh-ā-
- Indo-European root: bhares-
- Indo-European root: bhau-
- Indo-European root: bhegw-