Words that come from Italian perrucca

40 words across 12 languages descend from Italian perrucca — including wig, periwig, peruke, wigging, bigwig, wigmaker, periwigged, wigger.

See the etymology of perrucca itself →

English (20)

Spanish (4)

French (2)

Russian (2)

German (2)

Romanian (2)

Norman (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Polish (1)

Turkish (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Finnish (1)