Words that come from Italian “parrucca”

108 words across 35 languages descend from Italian parrucca — including wig, periwig, peruke, wigging, bigwig, wigmaker, periwigged, wigwag.

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English (38)

Spanish (9)

Italian (7)

Romanian (6)

Russian (5)

Polish (3)

German (3)

Catalan (3)

Portuguese (3)

French (2)

Hungarian (2)

Norman (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Swedish (2)

Turkish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Georgian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Old English (1)

Bavarian (1)

Finnish (1)

Proto-West Germanic (1)

Esperanto (1)

Thai (1)

Azerbaijani (1)

Turkmen (1)

Uzbek (1)

Ingrian (1)

Danish (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Tagalog (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Welsh (1)

Telugu (1)