Where does “pieterman” come from?
pieterman (Dutch) comes from Dutch Pieter, from Middle Dutch Pieter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.
pieterman (Dutch): weever, any individual fish or species of the...
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- weever, any individual fish or species of the...
Ancestry of “pieterman”, step by step
pieterman traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch Pieter
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | Pieter | — |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | Pieter | — |
| 3 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 4 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 5 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 6 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 7 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 8 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 9 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via Dutch Man
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | Man | man, human male, either adult or age-irrespective |
| 2 | Middle Dutch | man | human; person; man, male |
| 3 | Old Dutch | man | human, person; man, male |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | mann | person, human |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *mann- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | men- | to think, mind; spiritual activity; to stay,... |