Where does “πεῖ” come from?

πεῖ (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.

πεῖ (Ancient Greek): pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...

Definitions

  1. pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...

Ancestry of “πεῖ”, step by step

πεῖ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Semitic pay-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semiticpay-the mouth

via Phoenician 𐤐‬

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Phoenician𐤐‬

Words derived from “πεῖ

Every word from Proto-Semitic pay-