Where does “piks” come from?

piks (Abenaki) comes from English pigs, from English pig, from Middle English pigge, from Old English picga, from Proto-West Germanic piggō — pig.

piks (Abenaki): a pig

Definitions

  1. a pig

Ancestry of “piks”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpigsplural of pig; Third-person singular simple...
2EnglishpigAny of several intelligent mammalian species of...
3Middle EnglishpiggeA piglet or young pig; A pig irrespective of age;...
4Old Englishpicgaa young pig; piglet
5Proto-West Germanicpiggōpig

Words derived from “piks”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic piggō →Every word from Old English picga →Every word from Middle English pigge →