Where does “pie” come from?

pie (French) comes from Old French pie, from Latin pica, from Latin picus, from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- — name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie.

pie (French): magpie

Definitions

  1. magpie

Ancestry of “pie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpiemagpie
2Latinpicamagpie
3Latinpicusa woodpecker; a griffin
4Proto-Indo-European(s)peyk-name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie

Words derived from “pie”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- →Every word from Latin picus →Every word from Latin pica →