Where does “pies” come from?

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

pies (French): plural of pie

Definitions

  1. plural of pie

Ancestry of “pies”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpiemagpie
2Old Frenchpiemagpie
3Latinpicamagpie
4Latinpicusa woodpecker; a griffin
5Proto-Indo-European(s)peyk-name of a bird; woodpecker; magpie
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)peyk- →Every word from Latin picus →Every word from Latin pica →