Where does “pit” come from?

pit (Dutch) comes from English pit, from Middle English pit, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic puti, from Latin puteus, from Latin -al — noun-forming suffix.

pit (Dutch): A seed inside a fruit; wick; burner

Definitions

  1. A seed inside a fruit; wick; burner

Ancestry of “pit”, step by step

pit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English pit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpitA hole in the ground; An area at a racetrack used...
2Middle Englishpit—
3Old Englishpyttpit; well, pool; grave
4Proto-West Germanicputiwell
5Latinputeuspit, dungeon; well; cistern
6Latin-alnoun-forming suffix

via Middle Dutch pitte

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Dutchpitte—
2Proto-Germanicpittan—
3Proto-Germanicpiþō—

Words derived from “pit”

Every word from Latin -al →