Where does “pierreux” come from?

pierreux (French) comes from French pierre, from Middle French pierre, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak, from Proto-Malayic timbak.

pierreux (French): stony, rocky

Definitions

  1. stony, rocky

Ancestry of “pierreux”, step by step

pierreux traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French pierre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpierrestone
2Middle Frenchpierrestone
3LatinPetrusPeter
4Indonesianpenembakshooter
5Indonesiantembakto shoot to fire a shot
6Malaytembakto shoot
7MalaytimbakObsolete form of tembak
8Proto-Malayictimbak—
9Proto-Malayo-Polynesianti(m)bak—

via Latin petrōsus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpetrōsusfull of rocks, rocky
2Latin-ōsusose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
3Old Latin-ōssus—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian ti(m)bak →