Where does “petrell” come from?
petrell (Catalan) comes from Spanish petrel, from French pétrel, from English petrel, from English Peter, from Middle English Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak.
petrell (Catalan): petrel
Definitions
- petrel
Ancestry of “petrell”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | petrel | petrel |
| 2 | French | pétrel | petrel |
| 3 | English | petrel | Any of various species of black, grey, or white... |
| 4 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 5 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 6 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 7 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 8 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 9 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 10 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 11 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 12 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |