Where does “Peter” come from?

Peter comes from Middle English Petre, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος, derived from the Ancient Greek common noun πέτρος meaning stone or rock.

Ancestry of “Peter”, step by step

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

Words derived from “Peter”

Petersburg
Peterson
Parkinson
Petra
parkinsonism
Petrine
petrel
parkinsonian
Peta
Parkerson
hemiparkinsonian
Petersburgian
hemiparkinsonism
nonparkinsonian
Petrinism
Petrinize
Parkinsonise
πάρκινσον
Peter
Piteur
Pika

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