Where does “perk” come from?
Perk is a shortening of English percolator, which derives from Latin percolo, itself from Latin colo meaning to strain or filter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European kʷel-.
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Ancestry of “perk”, step by step
perk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English percolate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | percolate | To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to... |
| 2 | Latin | percolatus | strained through, filtered through, percolated |
| 3 | Latin | percōlō | to strain or filter through; to percolate |
| 4 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 5 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |