Where does “pinjon” come from?

pinjon (Franco-Provençal) comes from Latin pīpiō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

pinjon (Franco-Provençal): pigeon

Definitions

  1. pigeon

Ancestry of “pinjon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpīpiōto chirp, to pipe
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin pīpiō →
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