Where does “chickpea” come from?

Chickpea comes from French chiche, from Latin cicer, tracing back through Latin pisum, Latin piscis, and Proto-Indo-European pisḱ-, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European h₂ep-.

chickpea (English): An annual Asian plant in the pea family, widely...

Definitions

  1. An annual Asian plant in the pea family, widely...

Ancestry of “chickpea”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpois chichechick pea
2Frenchchichemean, stingy; scanty, meagre, stingy; able,...
3Old Frenchcice—
4Proto-Albaniantsitsā—
5Spanishchichameat; flesh; boob; chicha
6KunachichabCorn

Words derived from “chickpea”

Every word from Kuna chichab →Every word from Spanish chicha →Every word from Proto-Albanian tsitsā →