Where does “peach” come from?
Peach comes from Middle English pechen, from Old French pesche, from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier, from Latin persicum.
peach (English): A tree , native to China and now widely...
Definitions
- A tree , native to China and now widely...
Ancestry of “peach”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | pechen | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | anpecher | — |
| 3 | Late Latin | impedico | entangle; I fetter; I entangle |
| 4 | Latin | pedica | shackle, fetter; snare |
| 5 | Latin | pes | a foot, "in its senses as"; a place to tread... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | pets | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |
Words derived from “peach”