Where does “Poirot” come from?
Poirot (English) comes from Middle French pierre, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bak.
Ancestry of “Poirot”, step by step
Words derived from “Poirot”