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Where does “Peĉjo” come from?

Peĉjo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto -ĉjo, from Russian -ша, from Low German -sche — creates the female form of persons or animals.

Ancestry of “Peĉjo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperanto-ĉjoForms affectionate derivatives of masculine names
2Russian-шагенера́л + API → генера́льша; секрета́рь + API...
3Low German-schecreates the female form of persons or animals
Every word from Low German -sche →