Where does “piers” come from?
piers (English) comes from Old French Piers, 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.
piers (English): plural of pier
Ancestry of “piers”, step by step