Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “pekʷ-”
400 words across 58 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European pekʷ- — including kitchen, cook, cooking, cooked, biscuits, biscuit, cuisine, culinary.
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English (140)
- kitchen
- cook
- cooking
- cooked
- biscuits
- biscuit
- cuisine
- culinary
- kiln
- pumpkin
- precocious
- cookery
- melon
- apricot
- watermelon
- cooker
- concoction
- cookbook
- decoction
- peptic
- concoct
- dyspeptic
- precocity
- kitchenette
- quitter
- ricotta
- Cookson
- cookware
- cookout
- cookhouse
- precociously
- cookstove
- biscotti
- kitchenware
- overcook
- pastrycook
- precooked
- cooktop
- pepo
- kitchenmaid
- pumpkinseed
- charcuterie
- precociousness
- limekiln
- muskmelon
- cookshop
- pomelo
- coction
- homecooked
- cookee
- cookmaid
- precoce
- bisket
- kitchener
- cookfire
- cookshack
- undercook
- concocter
- decoct
- quittor
- kitchenward
- Triscuit
- biscuity
- culinarily
- precook
- cookroom
- brickkiln
- cookpot
- kitchenless
- dyspeptically
- pepita
- culinarian
- melony
- rockmelon
- melonlike
- cookless
- kitcheny
- cookable
- noncooking
- kitchenhand
- cooketh
- kitchenful
- minikitchen
- recook
- biscuitroot
- uncook
- outcook
- nonculinary
- noncook
- pumpkiny
- apricotty
- pumpkinlike
- melonhead
- biscuitlike
- recoct
- bittermelon
- pumpkinification
- spitchcock
- cookest
- antidyspeptic
- kitchenlike
- apricotlike
- pechka
- multicuisine
- kitchenry
- uncookable
- supercook
- noncooked
- kilnlike
- inconcoction
- apricoty
- cookedness
- coctile
- kitchendom
- melonic
- nonkitchen
- cookbookish
- biscotin
- miscook
- recoction
- pre-cooked
- pampelmoes
- Weet-Bix
- kitchen cabinet
- haute cuisine
- subcuisine
- nonpeptic
- nonquitter
- cuntbiscuit
- pumpkinless
- cookability
- biscuiteer
- biscuitless
- dyspeptone
- deconcoct
- pumpkineer
- cookbookery
- melonade
- cookline
- multicooker
Latin (49)
- praecoquum
- praecox
- coctilis
- coctio
- coquo
- coquus
- culina
- melopeponem
- pepticus
- praecoquere
- coquere
- recoctus
- recoquere
- coctus
- cocus
- pepo
- coquina
- peponem
- melo
- peponis
- excoquere
- concoquo
- coctor
- auricoctor
- panicoctarius
- coctura
- culinarius
- coquens
- discoquo
- discoctus
- excoquo
- concoquens
- concocturus
- concoctus
- concoquendus
- decoquo
- recoquo
- recoquens
- recocturus
- recoquendus
- excoquens
- excocturus
- excoctus
- excoquendus
- coquino
- coquinus
- pemma
- coctilia
- coquinarius
Italian (37)
- biscotto
- cucinare
- cuocere
- pompelmo
- albicocca
- cotto
- ricotta
- cucina
- biscotti
- cuoco
- cottura
- biscottato
- ricuocere
- stracuocere
- scuocere
- biscottino
- biscottiera
- biscottificio
- biscottiere
- capocuoco
- cuciniere
- precotto
- precottura
- precoce
- precocemente
- biscottare
- biscotteria
- biscottiero
- melone
- melonaio
- semicotto
- retrocucina
- popone
- poponaia
- poponaio
- cucinabile
- cozione