Where does “Perez” come from?

Perez comes from Spanish -ez, which derives from Latin -ities, itself from Latin -itia, from Latin -ia, from Ancient Greek -ία, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -h₂.

Ancestry of “Perez”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Spanish	Pérez	—
2	Spanish	Pedro	—
3	Latin	Petrus	Peter
4	Indonesian	penembak	—
5	Indonesian	tembak	—
6	Malay	tembak	to shoot
7	Malay	timbak	Obsolete form of tembak
8	Proto-Malayic	timbak	—
9	Proto-Malayo-Polynesian	ti(m)bak	—

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