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

Definitions

  1. plural of pier

Ancestry of “piers”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchPiers—
2LatinPetrusPeter
3Indonesianpenembakshooter
4Indonesiantembakto shoot to fire a shot
5Malaytembakto shoot
6MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
7Proto-Malayictimbak—
8Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—

Words derived from “piers”

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