Words that come from Vulgar Latin “pira”

139 words across 49 languages descend from Vulgar Latin pira — including pier, pear, peerless, pierhead, pearwood, peerlessly, pearlike, peary.

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Finnish (27)

English (17)

Portuguese (10)

German (8)

French (4)

Catalan (4)

Galician (4)

Spanish (4)

Middle English (4)

Luxembourgish (3)

Old High German (2)

Middle High German (2)

Asturian (2)

Faroese (2)

Estonian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Tagalog (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Norman (2)

Romanian (2)

Swahili (2)

Scots (2)

Old English (2)

Fala (1)

Italian (1)

Indo-Portuguese (1)

Slovene (1)

Yiddish (1)

Gallo (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Volapük (1)

Aromanian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Marathi (1)

Old Norse (1)

Bengali (1)

Old French (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Occitan (1)

Swedish (1)

Taos (1)

Middle Irish (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Ambonese Malay (1)