pānātu  [IGI : ]

1) feminine plural : the front ; 2) building, orchard .... : the front side , the frontage ; 3) army : the van , the vanguard ; 4) the forepart of the neck ; 5) preposition : in front of , before ; pānāssu : before him ; 5) temporally : ina pānāssu : before somebody / somebody's time ; (ina) pānāt : before an action[/ctx, the start / the beginning of an action ; pānātūa : before me , before my arrival ;

Cf. pānu, pānāt