Where does “Piers” come from?

Piers comes from Old French Piers, a variant of Old French Pierre, the French form of the name Peter.

Ancestry of “Piers”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchPiers—
2LatinPetrusPeter
3Indonesianpenembakshooter
4Indonesiantembakto shoot to fire a shot
5Malaytembakto shoot
6MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
7Proto-Malayictimbak—
8Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—

Words derived from “Piers”

Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bak →Every word from Proto-Malayic timbak →Every word from Malay timbak →