köken: From Latin flamma, from Proto-Italic *flāgmā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₂gmeh₂, derived from an extension of the root *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Compare French flamme, Portuguese chama, Spanish llama.
köken: From Malay panji (“banner, standard”), from Sanskrit पञ्जी (pañjī, “register”). Doublet of banci. * Semantic loan from Javanese ꦥꦚ꧀ꦗꦶ (panji) for noun 2 senses.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese pendon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French pennon. Cognate with, among others, Portuguese pendão.
köken: From Old Norse fáni, from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Compare the Latin pannus (“a cloth; a rag; a garment”), German Fahne (“the flag of a nation, organisation, etc; a banner”) from Middle High German vano / van, from Old High German fano (“a flag”), from the Germanic root *fanō (cloth, flag), from Proto-Indo-European *pān (fabric) and the English vane from the Old English fana (“a flag”).
aile: að sigla undir fána aðildarríkis, fánablað, fánabotn, fánaríki, fánaríkismál, fánayfirvald, hentifáni, skip sem siglir undir fána aðildarríkis, skip sem siglir undir fána ríkis, skoðunarmaður fánaríkis
Possibly originally a variant of viiru. According to SSA, the word may have originally meant "breeze", with influence from (otherwise unrelated) viiru; in that case the word may be a variant of viri instead.