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Re:How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (2015) on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:09AM (#14201575)
Not "plane"=sheet, but "plane" from the Greek "planos"=wandering. (Same root as planet=wandering star).

An aeroplane is a wanderer through the air.