Where does “pee-er” come from?

pee-er (English) comes from English pee, from English piss, from Middle English pisse, from Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin pissiare, from Latin pissio — I piss.

pee-er (English): One who pees

Definitions

  1. One who pees

Ancestry of “pee-er”, step by step

pee-er traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English pee

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpeeUrine; To urinate; To drizzle
2EnglishpissUrine; An instance of pissing; Alcoholic...
3Middle Englishpissepiss, urine; Alternative form of pissen
4Middle EnglishpissenTo piss; to deliver urine from the genitals; To...
5Old Frenchpissierto piss; to excrete urine
6Vulgar Latinpissiarepresent active infinitive of *pīssiō
7LatinpissioI piss

via English ER

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
2Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
3Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
4Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
5Proto-Turkicēdersaddle
Every word from Latin pissio
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