Words that come from Vulgar Latin “pira”

281 words across 60 languages descend from Vulgar Latin pira — including pear, pearwood, pearlike, peary, pearless, bira, bir, pēre.

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Finnish (130)

English (16)

German (15)

Dutch (8)

Luxembourgish (8)

French (7)

Catalan (6)

Hungarian (6)

Spanish (5)

Swedish (5)

Romanian (4)

Middle High German (3)

Danish (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Pennsylvania German (3)

Champenois (3)

Old High German (2)

Asturian (2)

Faroese (2)

Italian (2)

Estonian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Tagalog (2)

Irish (2)

Macedonian (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Norman (2)

Taos (2)

Middle Dutch (1)

Slovene (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Gallo (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Volapük (1)

Aromanian (1)

West Flemish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Old Norse (1)

Old French (1)

Sardinian (1)

Occitan (1)

Sotho (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Bavarian (1)

Vilamovian (1)

East Central German (1)

Lule Sami (1)

Kashubian (1)

Jicarilla (1)

Xhosa (1)

Poitevin-Saintongeais (1)

Chavacano (1)

Indonesian (1)

Lorrain (1)

Thai (1)